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Leading for Tomorrow

A Primer for Succeeding in Higher Education Leadership

Rutgers University Press

Using an engaging case study approach, Leading for Tomorrow provides new and emerging college and university administrators with real-world examples that will help them reflect on their own management and communication styles. It also offers practical solutions for how to deal with escalating challenges in the field of higher education, from decreasing state funding to political controversies on campus.

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Diversity Regimes

Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

Rutgers University Press

In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.

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Charting Your Path to Full

A Guide for Women Associate Professors

Rutgers University Press

Charting Your Path to Full is a data- and literature-informed resource aimed at helping women in the professoriate advance in their careers, regardless of discipline and institution type. Vicki L. Baker’s wealth of consulting and research insights provide a compelling and accessible approach to supporting women academics as they re-envision their careers.

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The Little Orange Book II

Student Voices on Excellent Teaching

UT System Acad of Distinguished Teachers

Students from the University of Texas System and its members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers offer thoughtful reflections on classroom learning.

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Radical Hope

A Teaching Manifesto

West Virginia University Press
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The Journey Before Us

First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College

Rutgers University Press

Why is college completion so closely linked to social class? In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols looks at the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students from middle-school to young adulthood and shows what must change in order to improve college pathways and graduate more students.

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Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom

Notes from a White Professor

West Virginia University Press
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Intentional Tech

Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching

West Virginia University Press
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Diversifying STEM

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender

Rutgers University Press

Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.

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Diversifying STEM

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender

Rutgers University Press

Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.

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Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

Rutgers University Press

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.

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Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

Rutgers University Press

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.

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Living When Everything Changed

My Life in Academia

Rutgers University Press

In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. With remarkable candor and compassion, she reflects on how second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.  

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Geeky Pedagogy

A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

West Virginia University Press
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Back in School

How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family

Rutgers University Press

Fifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms, but recently, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student parents navigate cultural norms and institutional resources, forging pathways as they journey to become better parents and successful students. 

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Unequal Higher Education

Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity

Rutgers University Press

Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the U.S. Taylor and Cantwell map the contours of this system, identifying which higher education institutions occupy which status positions at any given point in time, and explain the factors that support and extend this system of unequal higher education.

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Intersectionality and Higher Education

Identity and Inequality on College Campuses

Rutgers University Press

Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.

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Intersectionality and Higher Education

Identity and Inequality on College Campuses

Rutgers University Press

Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.

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The Instruction Myth

Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It

Rutgers University Press

The Instruction Myth argues that higher education can only be saved if universities are willing and able to abandon one of their key assumptions: that education revolves around instruction. In its place, he presents a powerful new model of a university centered upon student learning, offering concrete plans for its implementation.

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Postsecondary Education in British Columbia

Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960–2015

UBC Press

Postsecondary Education in British Columbia is a thoughtful critical analysis of the role of social justice, human capital, and the market in the development of institutions and public policy in BC education since 1960.

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