Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism, by Andrew Feffer (Fordham University Press; 328 pages; $135 hardcover, $35 paperback, $34.99 e-book). Uncovers the role of liberal intellectuals, along with conservatives, in an effort to rid New York City’s public colleges and schools of faculty and staff members and teachers with suspected communist leanings from 1940 to 1942.
Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students, edited by Rebecca A. Corbin and Ron Thomas (Stylus Publishing; 189 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Describes how various community colleges, with guidance from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, have encouraged students to develop entrepreneurial solutions to problems.
A Concise Guide to Teaching With Desirable Difficulties, by Diane Cummings Persellin and Mary Blythe Daniels (Stylus Publishing; 114 pages; $125 hardcover, $24.95 paperback, $19.99 e-book). A guide to making learning challenging, or desirably difficult, enough to inspire deep learning.
Crisis, Compassion, and Resiliency in Student Affairs: Using Triage Practices to Foster Well-Being, by Katie L. Treadwell, Marijo Russell O’Grady, and others (Naspa-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education; 267 pages; $39.95 for Naspa members, $44.95 for nonmembers). Perspectives from student-affairs leaders on how to respond to tragedies like active shooters, terrorism, natural disasters, campus unrest, and student suicide and death, along with smaller-scale incidents.
From Disability to Diversity: College Success for Students With Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, by Lynne C. Shea, Linda Hecker, and Adam R. Lalor (University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition; 135 pages; $30 paperback, $23.99 e-book). Offers strategies for helping students with learning differences make the transition to college and overcome barriers in the classroom and on campus.
A Guide to Collaborative Communication for Service-Learning and Community Engagement Partners, by Rebecca Dumlao (Stylus Publishing; 181 pages; $125 hardcover, $27.50 paperback, $21.99 e-book). Offers principles of communication to build trust and repair misunderstandings in colleges’ volunteer efforts with communities.
International Perspectives in Higher Education: Balancing Access, Equity, and Cost, edited by Jason D. Delisle and Alex Usher (Harvard Education Press; 229 pages; $64 hardcover, $33 paperback). Shows how different countries approach issues of unequal access to higher education, with looks at Australia’s lifting of enrollment caps, Brazil’s treatment of for-profit colleges, and other international models.
My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism, by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press; 222 pages; $28 hardcover, $27.99 e-book). A collective biography of the scholars and literary critics Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor that explores the bonds among them and with the author.
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack (Harvard University Press; 276 pages; $27.95). Describes stressors in the lives of students from low-income families who are admitted to elite colleges but are not necessarily accepted by classmates from wealthy families, especially when they come from troubled local public high schools.
SoTL in Action: Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice, edited by Nancy L. Chick (Stylus Publishing; 164 pages; $125 hardcover, $32.50 paperback, $25.99 e-book). An inside view of how researchers go about conducting meaningful scholarship of teaching and learning, or SoTL.
Student Affairs Fundraising: Raising Funds to Raise the Bar, by Sophie W. Penney and others (Naspa-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education; 134 pages; $34.95 for Naspa members, $39.95 for nonmembers). Guidance on how to effectively and ethically raise money for specific divisions of student affairs to provide money for scholarships, food banks, and other needs, with examples of charitable-gift agreements and funding proposals.
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