Crimes Against History, by Antoon De Baets (Routledge; 186 pages; $150 hardcover, $39.95 paperback or e-book). Examines how the killings of historians and archivists by authoritarian regimes, both long ago and in the recent past, have served to censor history, and how historians have resisted censorship.
Does America Need More Innovators?, edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine (MIT Press; 399 pages; $45 paperback, $42.75 e-book). Critical perspectives on universities’ and other organizations’ emphasis on cultivating innovation, including an overview of a Stanford University program intended to empower engineering undergraduates in the United States to develop innovative technology.
Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs, edited by Kathleen M. Goodman, Mary Ellen Giess, and Eboo Patel (Stylus Publishing; 318 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). A guide to engaging in discussions of belief with students inside and outside the classroom, including chapters devoted to fostering understanding of students of various faiths.
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom, by Joan Wallach Scott (Columbia University Press; 171 pages; $28 hardcover, $27.99 e-book). A historian’s essays on the politics of civility and other influences on how academic freedom is perceived and threatened.
Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusion and Success for All Students, by Hilary Landorf, Stephanie Doscher, and Jaffus Hardrick (Stylus Publishing and Nafsa: Association of International Educators; 273 pages; $125 hardcover, $32.50 paperback, $25.99 e-book). A guide to preparing students to understand and try to help solve global problems, using the experiences of Florida International University as an example.
Project-Based Learning in the First Year: Beyond All Expectations, edited by Kristin Wobbe and Elisabeth A. Stoddard (Stylus Publishing; 329 pages; $125 hardcover, $37.50 paperback, $29.99 e-book). Describes how to engage students in practical, team-based educational experiences during their freshman year, based on the model of the Great Problems Seminars at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement: Exploring Intersections, Frameworks, and Models of Practice, edited by Becca Berkey and others (Stylus Publishing; 348 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Provides lessons from nine universities on how to help faculty members integrate service and community work into their curriculum and overcome challenges, through mentoring, conferences, faculty-student partnerships, and other practices.
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism, by Jelani M. Favors (University of North Carolina Press; 354 pages; $29.95 hardcover, $22.99 e-book). Describes how historically black colleges and universities catalyzed the movement for black freedom, even as social conservatism lingered at those institutions.
The Two Cultures of English: Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric, by Jason Maxwell (Fordham University Press; 247 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Analyzes the disruption of English studies with the introduction of French theory in the 1960s and 1970s, a move that both intensified conflicts between professors in literature and composition and established common ground among them.
New books on higher education can be submitted to the Bookshelf editor.
