The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities, by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. (Encounter Books; 370 pages; $27.99). Criticizes campus sexual-assault policies and the notion of a rape epidemic at colleges; examines some four dozen cases since 2011 involving “innocent or almost certainly innocent” students.
Check It Off! Pave Your Way Through College to Career, by Vera Teller (Rowman and Littlefield; 135 pages; $35). Offers students a proactive approach to career planning, from their first year of college through graduation.
Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies, edited by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley (University of Illinois Press; 287 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Writings by labor historians and scholars in working-class studies on bridging scholarship and activism in varied settings, including colleges.
College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration, by Daniel Karpowitz (Rutgers University Press; 208 pages; $24.95). Documents the value of liberal-arts education in prisons, both for inmate-students and for the wider society; draws on the author’s 15 years of experience with Bard College’s Prison Initiative.
Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities: New Strategies for Higher Education Leaders, by James Martin, James E. Samels, and others (Johns Hopkins University Press; 272 pages; $39.95). Essays that offer advice for presidents, trustees, chief financial officers, and other leaders planning to make partnerships with or merge institutions; also includes a blueprint for college closure.
From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World, by Marion H. Larson and Sara L.H. Shady (InterVarsity Press; 208 pages; $19). Considers how evangelical Christian colleges can encourage interfaith engagement — drawing on the virtues of receptive humility, reflective commitment, and imaginative empathy.
The Landscape of Rural Service Learning, and What It Teaches Us All, edited by Randy Stoecker, Nicholas Holton, and Charles Ganzert (Michigan State University Press; 211 pages; $49.95). Offers theoretical and practical perspectives in essays on programs that involve students and faculty members in educational and other service to rural communities.
Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, by Z Nicolazzo (Stylus Publishing; 232 pages; $95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Combines personal, ethnographic, and other perspectives in a study of the experiences of transgender students.
What’s Happened to the University? A Sociological Exploration of Its Infantilization, by Frank Furedi (Routledge; 205 pages; $26.95). Focuses on threats to free speech and academic freedom at institutions in Britain and the United States, as well as phenomena said to infantilize students, such as “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings.”
Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students, edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling (Stylus Publishing; 247 pages; $95 hardcover, $32.50 paperback). Topics include the impact of institutional culture on student disengagement.
