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  • Pathways and Experiences of First-Generation Graduate Students

    Wary and Weary Travelers

    by John S. Levin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book focuses on first-generation graduate students in the US and the graduate or post-baccalaureate programs that house and educate these students. The several voices in this book, including first-generation graduate students, address the phenomena of graduate students’ experiences and related university practices, with the practices connected to traditional academic and Western values and to ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism

    by John S. Levin, Marie C. Martin, Ariadna I. López Damián ...
    A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures

    Organizational Change and Stability

    by John S. Levin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability. These lines are nested within historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of two nations—the US and Canada—two provinces and three states: Alberta, British Columbia, California, Hawai’i, and Washington. The author studies the development of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Community Colleges

    Edited by John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater ...
    Series series Core Concepts in Higher Education
    Understanding Community Colleges provides a critical examination of contemporary issues and practices and policy of community colleges. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars as well as new scholars for a comprehensive analysis of the community college landscape, including management and governance, finance, student demographics and development, teaching and learning, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • School Leadership for Authentic Family and Community Partnerships

    Research Perspectives for Transforming Practice

    Edited by Susan Auerbach ...
    School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators, families, and community groups that value relationship building, dialogue, and power-sharing as part of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Creating Campus Cultures

    Fostering Success among Racially Diverse Student Populations

    Edited by Samuel D. Museus, Uma M. Jayakumar ...
    Many colleges and universities have not engaged in the critical self-examination of their campuses necessary for effectively serving racially diverse student populations. This timely edited collection provides insights into how campus cultures can and do shape the experiences and outcomes of their increasingly diverse college student populations. By cultivating values, beliefs, and assumptions ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lowering Higher Education

    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    by James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Academically Adrift

    Limited Learning on College Campuses

    by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa ...
    In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Radical Care

    Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

    by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen ...
    Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Completing College

    Rethinking Institutional Action

    by Vincent Tinto ...
    Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto’s pathbreaking book Leaving College has been recognized ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Profession and Practice of Adult Education

    An Introduction

    by Sharan B. Merriam, Ralph G. Brockett ...
    The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring.--Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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