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Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney
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.
A Professor at the End of Time
The Work and Future of the Professoriate
By John Best
Rutgers University Press
A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Rutgers University Press
Universities in North America and Europe increasingly provide financial incentives to encourage collaboration between faculty in different disciplines, based on the premise that this yields more innovative and sophisticated research. Drawing from a wealth of empirical data, the contributors to Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration put that theory to the test. What they find reveals how interdisciplinarity is not living up to its potential, but also suggests how universities might foster more genuinely collaborative and productive research. Chapter 10 is available Open Access here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883/.
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Rutgers University Press
Universities in North America and Europe increasingly provide financial incentives to encourage collaboration between faculty in different disciplines, based on the premise that this yields more innovative and sophisticated research. Drawing from a wealth of empirical data, the contributors to Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration put that theory to the test. What they find reveals how interdisciplinarity is not living up to its potential, but also suggests how universities might foster more genuinely collaborative and productive research. Chapter 10 is available Open Access here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883/.
Queering Social Work Education
Edited by Susan Hillock and Nick J. Mulé
UBC Press
The first book of its kind in North America, this collection of original works promises to transform the future of social work education by equipping scholars and students with a new appreciation of queer strengths and experiences.
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
West Virginia University Press
Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century
Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model
Edited by Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey
Rutgers University Press
The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century weighs the concerns of university administrators, professors, adjuncts, and students in order to investigate whether there are ways to modify the existing system or promote new faculty models without shortchanging students or cheapening the mission of academia. It also examines the opportunities these systemic changes might create, offering universities a guide for responding to the rapidly evolving needs of an increasingly global society.
Learning the Possible
Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being
By Reynaldo Reyes; Foreword by Christian J. Faltis
The University of Arizona Press
Learning the Possible chronicles the experiences of five academically underprepared Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a federally funded one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP works, says Reyes, and does so primarily by helping students develop new identities as successful learners.
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Edited by Brigitta R. Brunner; Introduction by Brigitta R. Brunner
University of Alabama Press
Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities. They demonstrate the surprising and robust ways such programs bolster and enhance the mission of land-grant institutions.
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Rutgers University Press
Transforming the Academy brings together faculty members from many different backgrounds—male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, white, black, multiracial, and other—to examine the state of diversity within the American university. Whether describing challenging power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity.
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Rutgers University Press
Transforming the Academy brings together faculty members from many different backgrounds—male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, white, black, multiracial, and other—to examine the state of diversity within the American university. Whether describing challenging power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity.
A New Deal for the Humanities
Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education
Edited by Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
Rutgers University Press
A New Deal for the Humanities brings together twelve prominent scholars who shed light on the many concerns swirling around the humanities today—exploring the history of the liberal arts in America, their present state, and their future direction. The volume focuses on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers, where the decline of those fields would be most damaging, and where their strength is most threatened.
Rutgers since 1945
A History of the State University of New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
In the 1940s, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college for men. Today, it is a major public research university, a member of the Big Ten and of the prestigious Association of American Universities. In Rutgers since 1945, historian Paul G. E. Clemens chronicles this remarkable transition from the cold war, to the student protests of the 1960s and 1970s, to the growth of political identity on campus, and to the increasing commitment to big-time athletics, all of which are just a few of the innumerable newsworthy elements that have driven Rutgers’s evolution.
How to Succeed at University (and Get a Great Job!)
Mastering the Critical Skills You Need for School, Work, and Life
By Thomas R. Klassen and John A. Dwyer
UBC Press, On Campus
This practical, easy-to-read guide shows you how to master the critical skills needed for school, work, and life.
Developing Identity, Strengths, and Self-Perception for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The BASICS College Curriculum
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This practical college curriculum helps students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to develop an understanding of their identity, self-perception and strengths and how to use this self-knowledge to succeed at college, in their social lives, and in their careers. It is an ideal textbook for ASD college programs or for student self-study.
Signature Course Stories
Transforming Undergraduate Learning
Edited by Lori Holleran Steiker; Foreword by Bill Powers
The School of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
The Little Orange Book
Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching
UT System Acad of Distinguished Teachers
The members of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers—the only system-wide academy of teaching excellence in America—offer expert teaching tips and thoughtful reflections on classroom learning.
The Daily Practice of Compassion
A History of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Its People, and Its Mission, 1964-2014
By Dora L. Wang and Shannan L. Carter
UNM School of Medicine
Rich with anecdotes and personality, Dora Wang's account is a must-read for anyone curious about health care in New Mexico.
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
Raised at Rutgers
A President's Story
Rutgers University Press
In Raised at Rutgers, Richard L. McCormick offers a candid account of his life and work at one of America’s leading public universities, from his childhood in the 1950s through his tumultuous presidency which began in 2002 and lasted nearly a decade. McCormick not only paints a vivid portrait of what it is like to run a major university, he also illuminates the most important challenges facing higher education in America.
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