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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Edited by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn and Heather J. Shotton; Foreword by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching the Literature Survey Course
New Strategies for College Faculty
West Virginia University Press
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.
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.
Claiming Home, Shaping Community
Testimonios de los valles
Edited by Gloria H. Cuádraz and Yolanda Flores
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.
The Equity Myth
Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
By Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, and Malinda S. Smith
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.