Schools - Levels - Higher
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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
$34.98 Read moreThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission av
- Author: Mandery, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976951
- Language: English
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A Faculty and Staff Guide on Supporting Sophomore Student Success
$6.00 Add to cartA Faculty and Staff Guide on Supporting Sophomore Student Success is part of a series of action-oriented guides intended to blend research and practice to enhance the professional development and capa… [more below]
- Author: Tetley, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942072627
- Language: English
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What the Best College Teachers Do
$37.00 Read moreWhat makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide var
- Author: Bain, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0674013255
- Language: English
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The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom
$24.95 Add to cartFrom leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and more
Spanning over 40 yea- Author: Ruth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045152
- Language: English
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Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree
$29.99 Read moreWhat if you didn’t have to go to college?
You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don’
- Author: Klein, Karin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1400334470
- Language: English
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Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen Bipoc Students
$19.95 Add to cartThe first book to provide first-generation, low-income, and nontraditional students of color with insider knowledge on how to consider and navigate graduate school
Is Grad School for Me? is a calling- Author: MartÃnez-Vu, Yvette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0520393988
- Language: English
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Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
$29.95 Add to cartA revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to di- Author: Jack, Anthony Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237468
- Language: English
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Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing
$22.95 Add to cartHow to make American higher education fairer
In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The wides- Series: Our Compelling Interests #7
- Author: Krislov, Marvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691246769
- Language: English
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I Wish I Knew It Before Going to College
$14.95 Add to cartAre you going to college soon? Do you really know what you are getting yourself into? College isn’t just going to class and partying-well maybe for some-but in reality it’s way more than that.
Want to
- Author: Simone, Gabbriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1614480877
- Language: English
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The Professor Is in: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after yea- Author: Kelsky, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0553419420
- Language: English
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The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
$18.99 Read more“One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past–and shows how we can revolutionize it
We’re living in a period of great u
- Author: Davidson, Cathy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601270
- Language: English
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Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need?
$27.99 Add to cartSince its inception, higher education in the U.S. has claimed to develop leaders. This bold claim appears in college mission statements and mottos, and it is reinforced in recruiting materials and ad
- Author: Kolditz, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1952938368
- Language: English
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Berry College: A History
$46.95 Add to cartIllustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. Ranging from Berry’s modest beginnings in
- Author: Mathis, Doyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0820327581
- Language: English
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My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture
$22.00 Add to cart“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagia
- Author: Blum, Susan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0801476615
- Language: English
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A Remarkable Story to Tell: Tcu 1973-2023
$49.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years TCU’s growth in academic prestige, size, and financial strength has been remarkable indeed–transforming a good regional university into one that is listed among the top one … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658512
- Language: English
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The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University
$34.95 Add to cartAlready renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a patron, the former preside
- Author: O’Shaughnessy, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0813946484
- Language: English
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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
$24.00 Add to cartOur campuses are steeped in political correctness–that’s hardly news to anyone. But no one realizes that radical social agendas have also taken over campus health and counseling centers, with dire co… [more below]
- Author: Grossman, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1595230459
- Language: English
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$18.99 Add to cartThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating”
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979152
- Language: English
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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
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Cornell: A History, 1940-2015
$54.95 Add to cartIn their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell duri
- Author: Altschuler, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080144425X
- Language: English
