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Get Real
(December 2020)
49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education
William G. Tierney - Author
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A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.
Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing America’s colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic...(Read More) |
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Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness
(August 2020)
How Leaders Help Heal the Heart of the World
Jiying Song - Editor
Dung Q. Tran - Editor
Shann Ray Ferch - Editor
Larry C. Spears - Editor
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A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.
In a world where leaders and organizations face conflicts and complexity at an alarming rate, where human cruelty sometimes dominates kindness in individuals and families, and where nations hover in the shadow of moral and financial collapse, how do we find courage to forge a strong and enduring path into the future? In a fresh and ...(Read More) |
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University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism
(August 2020)
John S. Levin - Author
Marie C. Martin - Author
Ariadna I. López Damián - Author
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A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.
This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the experiences of four types of academics as they...(Read More) |
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Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 3
(June 2020)
Vitality and Continuity in Times of Change
Sharon F. Cramer - Editor
Peter L. K. Knuepfer - Editor
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Explores the impact of shared governance in times of campus and system transition.
Shared governance impacts every member of the campus community, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Contributors to this volume—presenters at multiple SUNY Voices conferences on Shared Governance—explore how campus members can effectively improve the dialogue about critical issues and become better informed about th...(Read More) |
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Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa
(March 2020)
Strategic Planning and Policy
Fred M. Hayward - Author
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Analyzes twelve strategic planning efforts in higher education in eight countries in Asia and Africa.
Drawing on over fifty years of on-the-ground experience, Fred M. Hayward’s Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa analyzes change processes in higher education in eight Asian and African countries. The twelve cases range from the push to upgrade and transform higher education in Afghanistan in the midst of...(Read More) |
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Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater
(October 2019)
Russian Policy Dramas
Elena Aydarova - Author
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An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.
Around the world, countries undertake teacher education reforms in response to international norms and assessments. Russia has been no exception. Elena Aydarova develops a unique theatrical framework to tell the story of a small group of reformers who enacted a major reform to modernize teacher education in Russia. Based on scrip...(Read More) |
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Trans People in Higher Education
(February 2019)
Genny Beemyn - Editor
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Finalist 2019 Book of the Year - ForeWord
Addresses the experiences of trans college students, faculty, and staff in a single volume for the first time.
While more trans students, faculty, and staff have come out on US college campuses today than ever before, many still report enduring harassment and discrimination. Others avoid disclos...(Read More) |
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Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2
(November 2017)
New Paradigms, Evolving Perspectives
Sharon F. Cramer - Editor
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Offers valuable insights into the governance process in higher education.
Building on the resources offered in the first volume of this series, this second volume offers governance members, leaders, and other academics valuable insights into the governance process in higher education. In a chapter drawn from his keynote address at the March 2015 SUNY Voices conference, Steven Bahls, president of Augustana College, provides a cri...(Read More) |
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Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1
(April 2017)
Demands, Transitions, Transformations
Sharon F. Cramer - Editor
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Offers practical advice for achieving shared governance in higher education.
For those seeking a way to change opinions of shared governance from pointless and unlikely to possible and intriguing, Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1 will trigger meaningful conversations by offering valuable new perspectives. Experienced governance members, the contributors provide practical insights for everyon...(Read More) |
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US Latinization
(March 2017)
Education and the New Latino South
Spencer Salas - Editor
Pedro R. Portes - Editor
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Demonstrates how educators and policymakers should treat the intertwined nature of immigrant education and social progress in order to improve current policies and practices.
Offering a much-needed dialogue about Latino demographic change in the United States and its intersections with P–20 education, US Latinization provides discussions that help move beyond the outdated idea that Mexican and Spani...(Read More) |
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