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Grade Inflation
(July 2008)
Academic Standards in Higher Education
Lester H. Hunt - Editor
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An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.
This book provides a provocative look at the issues and controversies surrounding grade inflation, and, more generally, grading practices in American higher education. The contributors confront the issues from a number of different disciplines and varying points of view. Topics ...(Read More) |
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Thought Knows No Sex
(June 2008)
Women's Rights at Alfred University
Susan Rumsey Strong - Author
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Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women’s higher education and the rural roots of reform.
“The essential powers of the spirit are neither masculine nor feminine, but human, sexless. Thought knows no sex.” — Jonathan Allen, President, Alfred University (1867–1892)
One of the na...(Read More) |
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When the Pot Boils
(May 2008)
The Decline and Turnaround of Drexel University
David A. Paul - Author
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Tells the story of the decline and near bankruptcy of a major American university, and how its dramatic turnaround was quickly achieved.
When the Pot Boils examines the decline and near bankruptcy of Drexel University in the late 1980s and early 1990s and its subsequent dramatic turnaround. David A. Paul provides an in-depth analysis of the multiple factors that contributed to this process, including the ...(Read More) |
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Always at Odds?
(April 2008)
Creating Alignment between Faculty and Administrative Values
Mary C. Wright - Author
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How faculty and administrators at research universities can create a shared sense of values.
In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright ...(Read More) |
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Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
(April 2008)
Kemal Guruz - Author
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Demonstrates how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today’s global knowledge economy.
Students and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon. Kemal Gürüz discusses how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and ...(Read More) |
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The Way Literacy Lives
(March 2008)
Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction
Shannon Carter - Author
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Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.
Working from the premise that literacy is a social process rather than an autonomous practice, The Way Literacy Lives offers a curricular response to the political, material, social, and ideological constraints placed on literacy education...(Read More) |
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Making Writing Matter
(March 2008)
Composition in the Engaged University
Ann M. Feldman - Author
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Challenging more limited approaches to service learning, this book examines writing instruction in the context of universities fully engaged in community partnerships.
In Making Writing Matter, Ann M. Feldman explores how changing scholarship at engaged metropolitan universities offers an opportunity to redesign first-year writing classes in ways that make students better writers. An engaged university commit...(Read More) |
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Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions
(March 2008)
Marybeth Gasman - Editor
Benjamin Baez - Editor
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner - Editor
Walter R. Allen - Foreword by
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Explores the particulars of minority-serving institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness.
Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions explores these important institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness, with the hope of sparking collaboration among the various types. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) enroll and graduate the majority of students of color in the United St...(Read More) |
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Ideas That Work in College Teaching
(November 2007)
Robert L. Badger - Editor
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Fifteen authors from thirteen different disciplines discuss their varied approaches to teaching.
As members of the faculty of the same college, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the fifteen contributors to this book have the unique experience of working from the same pool of students in order to explore how to improve teaching, enhance learning, and make the classroom more interesting. Together professo...(Read More) |
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The Locations of Composition
(July 2007)
Christopher J. Keller - Editor
Christian R. Weisser - Editor
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Explores the concepts of space and place within composition studies.
The Locations of Composition examines how spaces, places, and locations define, problematize, and shape composition studies. From a wide variety of perspectives, including critical theory, rhetoric, cultural geography, genre theory, postcolonial studies, and media studies, the contributors explore the disciplinary boundaries and authority of...(Read More) |
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