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Hawaii's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources

Celebrating the First 100 Years

College of Tropical Ag, College of Tropical Agriculture
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Unthinkable Thoughts

Academic Freedom and the One-State Model for Israel and Palestine

UBC Press

This book presents a case study of an academic conference where various actors sought to circumscribe the exploration of a controversial idea – the one-state model for Israel and Palestine – and it throws into stark relief the vulnerability and importance of academic freedom.

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Checklist for Change

Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise

Rutgers University Press

Checklist for Change diagnoses the problems in American higher education today and describes principal reforms that must occur in combination in order for it to remain a vital enterprise: a fundamental recasting of federal financial aid; new mechanisms for better channeling the competition among colleges and universities; recasting the undergraduate curriculum; and a stronger, more collective faculty voice in governance that defines not why, but how the enterprise must change.

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Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free

How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities

Rutgers University Press

Robert Samuels explains why universities cost so much and offers solutions as to how they can reduce their expenses by concentrating on their core mission of instruction and research. Not only can tuition be reduced, but public universities and colleges can be made free by allocating existing resources to provide quality undergraduate education and diminishing the amount of money spent in the areas of athletics, administration, and public research.

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Distinction Through Discovery

A Research-Oriented First Year Experience

University Press of Florida, Orange Grove Texts Plus
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Presumed Incompetent

The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

Utah State University Press
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Comrades of the Quest

An Oral History of Reed College

Oregon State University Press
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Valences of Interdisciplinarity

Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

Edited by Raphael Foshay
Athabasca University Press

A collection of essays on interdisciplinary theory, research, and teaching.

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In the Company of Scholars

The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education

University of Texas Press

In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today.

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The Mechanical Feature

100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University

University Press of Mississippi
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