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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. 

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How Humans Learn

The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching

West Virginia University Press
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Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone

Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education

West Virginia University Press
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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.   

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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. 

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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.  

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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.

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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

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.  

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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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Teaching the Literature Survey Course

New Strategies for College Faculty

West Virginia University Press
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Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges

Aligning Individual Needs and Organizational Goals

Rutgers University Press

Developing Faculty Members in Liberal Arts Colleges analyzes the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions.  

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Poison in the Ivy

Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses

Rutgers University Press

Poison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society. 
 

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Claiming Home, Shaping Community

Testimonios de los valles

The University of Arizona Press

To offer testimonio is inherently political, a vehicle that counters the hegemony of the state and illuminates the repression and denial of human rights. Claiming Home, Shaping Community offers the testimonios from and about the lives of Mexican-descent people who left rural agricultural valles, specifically the Imperial and the San Joaquín Valleys, to pursue higher education at a University of California campus. Through telling their stories, the contributors seek to empower others on their journeys to and through higher education.

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The Equity Myth

Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

UBC Press

Challenging the myth of equity in higher education, this is the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members’ experiences in Canadian universities.

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Mothering by Degrees

Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education

Rutgers University Press

In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single moms, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college. 
 

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Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions

Programs, Policies, and Social Justice

Rutgers University Press

Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
 

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