Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports, by Mike McIntire (W.W. Norton; 256 pages; $26.95). Focuses on controversies involving the Florida State Seminoles football team.
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators, by Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz (Harvard Education Press; 204 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Offers a research-based model to help community colleges use data to improve student completion rates and other outcomes; includes case studies of use at Long Beach City College, Southwestern College, and Odessa College.
A Fractured Profession: Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science, by David R. Johnson (Johns Hopkins University Press; 177 pages; $49.95). Documents how competing reward systems generate conflict between scientists oriented toward commercializing their discoveries and their traditionalist peers; draws on interviews with 61 scientists at four elite U.S. universities.
Free Speech on Campus, by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman (Yale University Press; 216 pages; $26). Focuses on how colleges and universities can protect the core values of free speech and academic freedom while creating inclusive campus environments; identifies what public institutions can and can’t do, and what all institutions should and shouldn’t do.
Open Mic Night: Campus Programs That Champion College Student Voice and Engagement, edited by Toby S. Jenkins and others (Stylus Publishing; 145 pages; $95 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Offers advice to student-affairs professionals on using spoken-word performance events to encourage personal, intellectual, and civic engagement among students.
Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at the City University of New York, by Alexandra W. Logue (Princeton University Press; 431 pages; $29.95). A study of how governance structure, conflicting interests, and other factors can impede institutional change; focuses on Pathways, a controversial reform effort, led by the author, as chief academic officer, from 2010 to 2013, that was intended to ease the transfer of credits among CUNY’s constituent colleges to improve graduation rates.
The Quest for Purpose: The Collegiate Search for a Meaningful Life, by Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson (State University of New York Press; 413 pages; $95). Draws on three sets of national survey data as well as on in-depth interviews with 400 students from varied sorts of institutions.
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, by Derek Bok (Princeton University Press; 228 pages; $29.95). Considers reasons for the sluggish pace of efforts to reform American higher education and offers suggestions for improvement; topics include the influence of government, foundations, accrediting institutions, students, market forces, and technological innovation.
