Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses, edited by Catherine Kaukinen, Michelle Hughes Miller, and Ráchael A. Powers (Temple University Press; 333 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Combines writings on the nature, extent, and causes of violence against college women with discussions of strategies to investigate and prevent the phenomenon; topics include whether mandatory reporting under Title IX is a help or hindrance.
Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students, by Jacques Berlinerblau (Melville House; 246 pages; $26.99). Topics include how a devaluation of teaching has affected undergraduate education; argues for a professoriate of fully realized scholar-teachers and suggests ways students can approach their choice and experience of college in terms of teaching excellence.
Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement, edited by Timothy J. Shaffer and others (Michigan State University Press; 372 pages; $49.95). Combines writings on the history and theory of the pedagogical approach with case studies on its use in the United States and other countries; topics include Russian and American students deliberating online.
Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age, by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord (Polity Press; 189 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A critical analysis of the “digital turn” in humanities research.
Disrupt This! MOOCs and the Promises of Technology, by Karen J. Head (University Press of New England; 193 pages; $29.95). Combines an account of the author’s experience teaching a MOOC in writing at Georgia Tech with a challenge to uncritical faith in new technologies in higher education.
From the Desk of the Dean: The History and Future of Arts and Sciences Education, edited by Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth A. Say (University of South Carolina Press; 193 pages; $24.99). Writings by current and former arts-and-sciences deans on such topics as the role of community colleges in liberal-arts education, and rethinking the future of graduate education.
Higher Education and Silicon Valley: Connected but Conflicted, by W. Richard Scott and Michael W. Kirst (Johns Hopkins University Press; 296 pages; $54.95). Examines uneasy relations between companies and colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area; contains historical and quantitative data from 1970 to 2012 as well as 14 case studies.
Knowledge for Social Change: Bacon, Dewey, and the Revolutionary Transformation of Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century, by Lee Benson and others (Temple University Press; 206 pages; $74.50 hardcover, $14.95 paperback). Argues for a greater engagement of research universities in civic society; draws on insights from Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Jane Addams, John Dewey, and other thinkers.
Med School Uncensored: The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Admissions, Exams, Residency, and Sleepless Nights in the Call Room, by Richard Beddingfield (Ten Speed Press; 280 pages; $18.99). Offers advice for students from pre-med on, drawing on the experiences of recent medical-school graduates.
Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context, edited by Emily J.M. Knox (Rowman & Littlefield; 276 pages; $80). Case studies include when traumatic-content warnings were or were not requested or used in an instructional setting, as well as how the American Association of University Professors and the Association of College and Research Libraries researched and crafted their policies on the issue.
