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Selected New Books on Higher Education

Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub
February 21, 2016

6224-HEB
Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream, by A.J. Angulo (Johns Hopkins University Press; 203 pages; $29.95). Traces the long history of American for-profit colleges and universities, their rapid expansion in recent years, and the abuses that have marked the sector.

Ensuring the Success of Latino Males in Higher Education: A National Imperative, edited by Victor B. Sáenz, Luis Ponjuán, and Julie L. Figueroa (Stylus Publishing; 272 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Research on why the number of Latino men attending American colleges and universities continues to slide relative to Latina women.

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6224-HEB
Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream, by A.J. Angulo (Johns Hopkins University Press; 203 pages; $29.95). Traces the long history of American for-profit colleges and universities, their rapid expansion in recent years, and the abuses that have marked the sector.

Ensuring the Success of Latino Males in Higher Education: A National Imperative, edited by Victor B. Sáenz, Luis Ponjuán, and Julie L. Figueroa (Stylus Publishing; 272 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Research on why the number of Latino men attending American colleges and universities continues to slide relative to Latina women.

Generation Z Goes to College, by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace (Jossey-Bass; 268 pages; $29.95). Examines the motivations, skills, concerns, and other characteristics of students born in 1995 or later; draws on a survey of more than 1,100 such students during their first six weeks of attendance at 15 institutions.

Global Perspectives on Higher Education, by Philip G. Altbach (Johns Hopkins University Press; 332 pages; $34.95). Topics include the globalization of rankings, English as the dominant academic language, research universities in developing countries, and such trends as “massification,” or the major expansion of access to higher education.

Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie R. Posselt (Harvard University Press; 250 pages; $35). Explores divergent views of merit and other factors that shape “gatekeeping” in graduate programs; draws on interviews with faculty from 10 top-ranked doctoral programs at three well-known research universities: two public, one private.

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Intersectionality in Action: A Guide for Faculty and Campus Leaders for Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Institutions, edited by Brooke Barnett and Peter Felten (Stylus Publishing; 155 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays on promoting diversity through an understanding, for example, of students’ multiple identities and the “intersections” present in institutions, as with multiculturalism and study-abroad programs.

Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, by Elizabeth F. Barkley and Claire Howell Major (Jossey-Bass; 480 pages; $50). Offers 50 techniques designed to gauge student learning across disciplines and learning environments. Includes a Learning Goals Inventory and more than 35 assessment rubrics.

The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School Through Tenure, edited by Glenn Wright (Syracuse University Press; 304 pages; $19.95). Topics include mentoring as faculty development for all levels of experience, cross-race faculty mentoring, and mentoring graduate students for nonacademic careers.

The Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America: Chinese Undergraduate Students at American Universities, by Dennis T. Yang (Lexington Books; 174 pages; $80). Draws on interviews with students, parents, teachers, and “educational agents” in Shanghai in a study of the motivations, including the desire for cultural, economic, and social capital, that have spurred increasing numbers of Chinese students to attend American universities.

A Toolkit for College Professors, by Jeffrey L. Buller and Robert E. Cipriano (Rowman & Littlefield; 175 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Uses case studies and scenarios to discuss such topics as teaching, research, collegiality, and advancement.

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Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell (Princeton University Press; 417 pages; $35). Traces the intellectual history of the university, with a focus on the rise of elite research institutions in the United States.

Wounded Lions: Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crises in Penn State Athletics, by Ronald A. Smith (University of Illinois Press; 259 pages; $95 hardcover, $21.95 paperback). Draws extensively on university archives to examine the wider institutional context of the scandal that engulfed the Penn State football program in 2011. Describes the imbalance of power that developed in sports administration at the university, and the whitewashing of years of rules violations, coaching malfeasance, and player crime.

A version of this article appeared in the February 26, 2016, issue.
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