Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School, edited by Rhona S. Weinstein and Frank C. Worrell (Oxford University Press; 420 pages; $69.95). Discusses a collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools that created a charter high school called the California College Preparatory Academy.
Are You Smart Enough? How Colleges’ Obsession With Smartness Shortchanges Students, by Alexander W. Astin (Stylus Publishing; 147 pages; $95 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Criticizes an emphasis on identifying and recruiting smart students rather than developing smartness and talents across a wider student population.
Beyond Convention: Genre Innovation in Academic Writing, by Christine M. Tardy (University of Michigan Press; 208 pages; $25). Examines how pushing the boundaries of genre can act as a tool for innovation in academic writing at the undergraduate to professional levels.
I Love Learning, I Hate School: An Anthropology of College, by Susan D. Blum (Cornell University Press; 344 pages; $24.95). Draws on data from nearly 300 peer-to-peer interviews of students at the University of Notre Dame.
Look Before Leaping: Risks, Liabilities, and Repair of Study Abroad in Higher Education, by Gregory F. Malveaux (Rowman & Littlefield; 212 pages; $70 hardcover, $35 paperback). Offers advice for the coordinators of study-abroad programs, as well as potential participants; includes discussion of lawsuits involving health issues, sexual assault, and supervisory neglect.
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University, by Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Sr. (Oxford University Press; 241 pages; $29.95). Explores the “hidden world” of conservative professors, using data from interviews with 153 academics in economics, political science, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature at 84 universities.
Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education, edited by Margaret A. Post and others (Stylus Publishing; 286 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Writings that emphasize the collaborative nature of the public engagement of a new generation of scholars.
Reclaiming Accountability: Improving Writing Programs Through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments, edited by Wendy Sharer and others (Utah State University Press; 335 pages; $29.95). Includes case studies of institutions’ new efforts in response to accreditors.
Reimagining Business Education: Insights and Actions From the Business Education Jam, by Paul R. Carlile and others (Emerald Group Publishing; 127 pages; $39.99). Reports on a three-day online brainstorming session in the fall of 2014 involving more than 5,000 participants debating the future of business education and ways to close the gap between industry and academe.
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber (University of Toronto Press; 115 pages; US$26.95). Applies the principles of the Slow Movement — which began with Slow Food — to the stresses of an increasingly corporatized academy; topics include teaching, research, collegiality, and time management.
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning, by James M. Lang (Jossey-Bass; 259 pages; $27.95). Develops a structured, incremental approach to making changes in courses to enhance both teaching and learning.
Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy, edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Rutgers University Press; 230 pages; $90 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Includes writings on the day-to-day challenges of being faculty members who represent diversity in the curriculum, in departments, and on the faculty at large.
