College Music Curricula for a New Century, edited by Robin D. Moore (Oxford University Press; 289 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Focuses on changes in performance degrees, with particular attention to perspectives from ethnomusicologists.
For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America, by Charles Dorn (Cornell University Press; 308 pages; $35). A history of American higher education since the late 18th century that focuses on how civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence have shaped colleges’ dedication to the common good.
Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons From the Science Education Initiative, by Carl Wieman (Harvard University Press; 265 pages; $35). Discusses the adoption of new teaching methods in a program involving 13 science departments at the Universities of Colorado and British Columbia.
Selling Hope and College: Merit, Markets, and Recruitment at an Unranked School, by Alex Posecznick (ILR Press/Cornell University Press; 213 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). A study of admissions, recruitment, and financial struggles at “Ravenwood College,” the pseudonym given a small, private nonprofit college located on several floors of a high-rise in an urban neighborhood, and serving mostly underprepared and underrepresented students.
Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy, by Regina F. Bendix, Kilian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes (University of Illinois Press; 130 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws practical lessons from a multiyear project, financed by the German Research Foundation, which brought together the authors — a Swiss cultural anthropologist, a German economist, and an American folklorist — to study cultural property.
Teaching the Whole Student: Engaged Learning With Heart, Mind, and Spirit, edited by David Schoem, Christine Modey, and Edward P. St. John (Stylus Publishing; 292 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays on an approach to teaching that emphasizes community-building and meaning and purpose for students, along with academic success.
Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions, by Rebecca Zwick (Harvard University Press; 267 pages; $35). Evaluates competing approaches to college admissions, from grades and test scores to demographic and other considerations.
Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics, by Joli Jensen (University of Chicago Press; 166 pages; $35 hardcover, $15 paperback). Focuses on the process of academic writing rather than the content, with advice on matters like securing time, maintaining momentum, handling stalls, countering the magnum-opus myth, and finding support in faculty writing groups.
