Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital, by Patrik Svensson (University of Michigan Press; 279 pages; $80 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Draws on collaborative work done at HUMlab, a digital-humanities center established in 2000 at Sweden’s Umeå University.
Failing Families, Failing Science: Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science, by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Anne E. Lincoln (New York University Press; 193 pages; $89 hardcover, $27 paperback). Discusses academic science as a career particularly problematic for those wishing to start families.
The Future of University Credentials: New Developments at the Intersection of Higher Education and Hiring, by Sean R. Gallagher (Harvard Education Press; 254 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on employer interviews, surveys, and other data in an evidence-based analysis of how university credentials figure in hiring.
Librarians and Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation, by Joe Eshleman and others (American Library Association; 198 pages; $58.50 for ALA members, $65 for nonmembers). Offers the views of two academic librarians and two instructional designers as natural allies to support and improve instruction.
Next Gen PhD: A Guide to Career Paths in Science, by Melanie V. Sinche (Harvard University Press; 260 pages; $26.95). Offers guidance to doctoral students and postdocs, as well as those who advise them, on pursuing scientific careers in and outside academe; topics include self-assessment, networking, and interviewing and negotiating.
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, by Sara Goldrick-Rab (University of Chicago Press; 373 pages; $27.50). A study of students’ financial struggles that draws on data from 3,000 young adults who entered public institutions in Wisconsin in 2008, with half their number failing to secure a degree.
Performance Funding for Higher Education, by Kevin J. Dougherty and others (Johns Hopkins University Press; 263 pages; $40). Reports on a three-year study that examined the implementation and impacts (intended and unintended) of tying higher-education funding to institutional performance in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College, by Lee Cuba and others (Harvard University Press; 238 pages; $35). Explores a process of self-creation and repeated re-creation as students make decisions that affect their academic and social experience at college; draws on a five-year study that followed 200 students at seven New England colleges: Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury, Smith, Wellesley, and Trinity.
Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education, edited by C. Carney Strange and Donna Hardy Cox (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 287 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$39.95 paperback). Focuses on student services to improve the educational experiences of minority, disabled, first-generation, mature, international, and other students at Canadian colleges and universities.
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom With the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh (West Virginia University Press; 241 pages; $79.99 hardcover, $22.99 paperback). Draws on neuroscientific and other research to develop an approach to teaching that harnesses the power of emotion to fuel motivation and learning.
The Uberfication of the University, by Gary Hall (University of Minnesota Press; 57 pages; $7.95). Examines the implications of what has been termed the “sharing economy” for those who work or study at colleges and universities as people are encouraged to be “freelance microentrepreneurs.”
What Universities Can Be: A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership, by Robert J. Sternberg (Cornell University Press; 287 pages; $29.95). Discusses the role of universities in cultivating engaged, ethical leaders and considers how that goal can be promoted in admissions, instruction, financial aid, diversity, athletics, and other realms.
