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It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not)
Mental Health Tips and Self-Care Strategies for Your Undergrad Years
UBC Press, On Campus
It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not) explores frequent sources of undergraduate mental distress and the steps students can take to meet those challenges head-on.
Innovation of Higher Education
Change-Makers at Incheon National University I
Seoul Selection, Seoul Selection USA, Inc.
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.
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.
Charting Your Path to Full
A Guide for Women Associate Professors
By Vicki L. Baker; Foreword by Pamela L. Eddy
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.
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.
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.
Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom
Notes from a White Professor
West Virginia University Press
Intentional Tech
Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching
By Derek Bruff
West Virginia University Press
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
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.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
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.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
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.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
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.
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.
Geeky Pedagogy
A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
West Virginia University Press
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.
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.
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.
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.