Achieve the College Dream: You Don’t Need to Be Rich to Attend a Top School, by María Carla Chicuén (Rowman & Littlefield; 160 pages; $35). Draws on both the author’s professional and personal experience in a guide focused on strategies for talented low-income students.
College Essay Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay, by Ethan Sawyer (Sourcebooks; 232 pages; $14.99). Offers advice on writing what are identified as the four basic types of college-admissions essays, each of which hinges on combinations of yes-or-no answers regarding whether the student has faced significant challenges in life or knows what he or she wants to do.
Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition, edited by Brigitta R. Brunner (University of Alabama Press; 192 pages; $49.95). Essays on the mission of land-grant institutions; the focus is on approaches to community and civic engagement at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts.
Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (University of Minnesota Press; 579 pages; $122 hardcover, $35 paperback). Presents scholarly essays, position statements, commissioned interviews, and other materials that reflect debates over the identity, methods, and reach of the emerging field.
Expanding College Access for Urban Youth: What Schools and Colleges Can Do, edited by Tyrone Howard, Jonli D. Tunstall, and Terry K. Flennaugh (Teachers College Press; 182 pages; $78 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Offers a case study of the VIPS program (Vice Provost Initiative for Pre-College Scholars), a collaboration between the University of California at Los Angeles and the Los Angeles and Pasadena Unified School Districts.
Going to College With Autism: Tips and Strategies From Successful Voices, by Emily Rutherford, Jennifer Butcher, and Lori Hepburn (Rowman & Littlefield; 110 pages; $40 hardcover, $20 paperback). Draws on the firsthand accounts of students on the autism spectrum.
Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century, edited by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Amanda Cook (Jossey-Bass; 334 pages; $30). Writings by faculty members in biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology involved in the Measuring College Learning project of the Social Science Research Council.
Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, by Randy Stoecker (Temple University Press; 228 pages; $79.50 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Offers a critique of the prioritized concepts of learning, service, community, and change in prevailing theories of service learning; argues for a reversal of those priorities, to place communities and their empowerment first.
The Power of Integrated Learning: Higher Education for Success in Life, Work, and Society, by William M. Sullivan (Stylus Publishing; 208 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws on examples from the members of the New American Colleges & Universities consortium in a discussion of an approach to learning that combines the strengths of the liberal arts, professional studies, and civic responsibility.
Reimagining the Academic Library, by David W. Lewis (Rowman & Littlefield; 170 pages; $85 hardcover, $40 paperback). Applies Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in a discussion of transforming academic libraries in the digital era, including “retiring the legacy print collection” at the local-campus level in favor of a national collective repository of books at 50 to 100 of the biggest research-university libraries.
Transition and Transformation: Fostering Transfer Student Success, by Stephen J. Handel and Eileen Strempel (National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students/University of North Georgia Press; 138 pages; $24.99). Topics include the Interstate Passport System, a program designed by academic leaders in the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education region to ease transfer for students in 16 states with little or no loss of credit hours.
What Every Science Student Should Know: A Survival Guide for Undergrads, by Justin L. Bauer and others (University of Chicago Press; 283 pages; $75 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Offers advice on choosing a STEM major, excelling in courses, conducting research, and career planning; draws on the Dartmouth College experience of the authors, three of whom were editors in chief of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science.
