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Inside Academia
Professors, Politics, and Policies
Rutgers University Press
In Inside Academia,esteemed professor and philosopherSteven M. Cahn diagnoses issues plaguing America’s universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. He uses real cases to illustrate how college faculty and administrators often do not serve the best interests of schools or students.
Toxic Ivory Towers
The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia.
Making Sense of the College Curriculum
Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
Rutgers University Press
Over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in higher education. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a structured and coherent undergraduate education is such a vexing challenge for colleges and universities.
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Rutgers University Press
The Douglass Century tells a powerful tale of the creativity and determination of successive generations of women who have claimed intellectual space, devised educational programs, and sustained an academic project, Douglass Residential College that has reshaped the worlds available to women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
The theory of servant leadership posits that the most effective leaders nurture the personal growth and well-being of their followers. Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how college and university faculty members can engage with administrators, students, and community members to put these principles into practice.
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Edited by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn and Heather J. Shotton; Foreword by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Rutgers University Press
This book highlights the current scholarship emerging from Native American scholars in higher education. From understanding how Indigenous students make their way through school, to tracking tribal college and university transfer students, this book allows Native scholars to take center stage, and shines the light squarely on those least represented among us.
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Edited by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn and Heather J. Shotton; Foreword by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Rutgers University Press
This book highlights the current scholarship emerging from Native American scholars in higher education. From understanding how Indigenous students make their way through school, to tracking tribal college and university transfer students, this book allows Native scholars to take center stage, and shines the light squarely on those least represented among us.
Technology and Engagement
Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
Rutgers University Press
Technology and Engagement explores how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. This ‘ecology of transition’ is important in keeping them focused on why they were in college, and helped them become more integrated into the university setting.
From Single to Serious
Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges. She examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered presentations of self, the expectations of their religious campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships.
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Edited by Ryan King-White
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.