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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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