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Selected New Books on Higher Education

Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub August 3, 2015
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Between Humanities and the Digital, edited by Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg (MIT Press; 574 pages; $45). Writings on ways scholars in the humanities have embraced digital technology as both a tool and an object of study; topics include cyberarchaeology, computational literature, and problem-based modeling in the digital humanities.

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Selected New Books on Higher Education 1

Between Humanities and the Digital, edited by Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg (MIT Press; 574 pages; $45). Writings on ways scholars in the humanities have embraced digital technology as both a tool and an object of study; topics include cyberarchaeology, computational literature, and problem-based modeling in the digital humanities.

The Coach’s Guide for Women Professors Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life, by Rena Seltzer (Stylus Publishing; 248 pages; $95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Offers advice on such topics as setting priorities, creating support networks, and handling challenges to one’s authority.

Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices, by Thomas J. Tobin, B. Jean Mandernach, and Ann H. Taylor (Jossey-Bass; 304 pages; $45). Discusses evaluation practices, including student ratings, that reflect the differences between online and traditional-classroom instruction.

Higher Education and Employability: New Models for Integrating Study and Work, by Peter J. Stokes (Harvard Education Press; 200 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Uses case studies from the Georgia Institute of Technology and New York and Northeastern Universities to examine how institutions can collaborate with the business world to better prepare students for the world of work.

Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor’s Life, by Gary M. Burge (InterVarsity Press; 138 pages; $16). Discusses the development of a faculty member’s career before retirement in terms of three successive stages or cohorts of a desire for security, success, and significance.

Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique, edited by Brenda L.H. Marina (Lexington Books; 205 pages; $85). Writings on how mentoring can promote women’s success in academe, with particular attention to female academics of diverse backgrounds.

Taking College Teaching Seriously, Pedagogy Matters! Fostering Student Success Through Faculty-Centered Practice Improvement, by Gail O. Mellow and others (Stylus Publishing; 140 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses an online platform that promotes individual reflection on teaching practices as well as the ability to observe and learn from the teaching practices of one’s disciplinary peers.

Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century, by Harvey J. Graff (Johns Hopkins University Press; 323 pages; $44.95). A chronological, critical history of interdisciplinarity in the modern university using comparative case studies of varied fields.

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