Applied Pedagogies: Strategies for Online Writing Instruction, edited by Daniel Ruefman and Abigail G. Scheg (Utah State University Press; 202 pages; $29.95). Writings on online-course design and fostering student engagement; includes discussion of MOOCs.
Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College, by Elizabeth M. Lee (Cornell University Press; 266 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on class tensions and the experiences of lower-income students at an elite (unnamed) women’s college in the Northeast.
The Lives of Campus Custodians: Insights Into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy, by Peter Magolda (Stylus Publishing; 258 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Draws on fieldwork at one public and one private university in a study of how the marginalized lives and working conditions of university custodians contrast with the values of university communities.
Meritocracy and the University: Selective Admission in England and the United States, by Anna Mountford Zimdars (Bloomsbury Academic; 240 pages; $90). Documents similarities and differences in the admissions criteria of elite American and English institutions; draws on interviews with admissions professionals at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and other universities.
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, by Ben Shneiderman (Oxford University Press; 317 pages; $39.95). Develops a collaborative model guided by the combining of applied and basic research and the blending of science, engineering, and design.
Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women’s Success, by Laura T. Hamilton (University of Chicago Press; 263 pages; $25). Examines the impact on female college students of “helicopter” parents, whether career-minded or social-minded; “bystander” parents, whose involvement is constrained by economic and other factors; and “paramedic” parents, who intervene when most needed but who prize self-sufficiency; draws on 59 interviews with parents of young women who attended a large, midtier state flagship university.
The PhDictionary: A Glossary of Things You Don’t Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty Life, by Herb Childress (University of Chicago Press; 271 pages; $60 hardcover, $20 paperback). Offers extended, often wry, entries on 150 phrases and concepts for those considering doctoral study or faculty careers.
Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment: The Global Relevance of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education, edited by Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart (Stylus Publishing; 241 pages; $95 hardcover, $32.50 paperback). Writings by academics at institutions in the United States, Japan, and the West Indies on issues of racial and ethnic diversity in and beyond the classroom.
The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, by Stephen B. Heard (Princeton University Press; 306 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $21.95 paperback). Offers advice on writing habits as well as the structure of scientific papers and processes of submission, revision, review, and publication; draws on the author’s experience as a scientist, graduate adviser, and journal editor.
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent (Jossey-Bass; 316 pages; $45). Presents strategies for designing and teaching courses in the STEM fields, including best uses of technology and fostering student engagement, no matter how big the class.
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow, by Jeffrey J. Selingo (William Morrow; 297 pages; $25.99). Offers guidance to students from the latter part of high school through college graduation; topics include the benefits of a gap year or other “detour,” college choice, including the importance of location, and internships and other hands-on learning for a career.
The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most, by Peter Felten and others (Jossey-Bass; 272 pages; $40). Offers advice and institutional examples organized around the six core themes of how learning, relationships, expectations, alignment, improvement, and leadership matter.
Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus, edited by Tom Slater (Palgrave Macmillan; 134 pages; $31). Writings on what is termed a growing climate of censorship, illiberalism, and threats to free speech on campuses in the United States and Britain; topics include trigger warnings, “eco- orthodoxy” on climate change, the “war on lads and frats,” and feminism and “campus victim culture.”
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out, by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino (Henry Holt; 351 pages; $17). Offers first-person accounts of the trauma, healing, and activism of survivors of campus sexual assault, including, for many, problems with how they were treated by their institutions and by law-enforcement officials.
What’s So Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Integrated Approaches to Christian Formation, edited by Paul W. Lewis and Martin William Mittelstadt (Pickwick Publications; 252 pages; $33). Essays that describe and apply the multidisciplinary integration of faith and learning, with particular reference to the Assemblies of God and Pentecostal tradition.
Women in the Academy: Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways, edited by Nichola D. Gutgold and Angela R. Linse (Lexington Books; 166 pages; $80). Offers personal essays that document the experiences of 12 women, including adjunct and tenured faculty members and senior administrators.
