Academic Fault Lines: The Rise of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education, by Patricia J. Gumport (Johns Hopkins University Press; 526 pages; $59.95 hardcover or e-book). Uses nine case studies to show how campus leaders and faculty members responded to outside pressures to meet society’s expectations that they serve the economy while trying to hold true to their missions.
Addressing Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education: Strategies for Educational Leaders, by Ronald E. Hallett, Rashida M. Crutchfield, and Jennifer J. Maguire (Teachers College Press; 148 pages; $96 hardcover, $31.95 paperback or e-book). Explains the steps colleges can take to support students living in vehicles, garages, and other unstable situations, and to help them achieve their academic goals.
Back in School: How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family, by A. Fiona Pearson (Rutgers University Press; 186 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback or e-book). Examines how the more than a quarter of college students who are parents manage their responsibilities, financial aid, and college resources as they seek a path toward a career.
College Teaching at Its Best: Inspiring Students to Be Enthusiastic, Lifelong Learners, by Chris Palmer (Rowman & Littlefield; 231 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback, $28.50 e-book). Offers ideas for drawing out quiet students, broadening participation and engagement, and treating students as individuals.
Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education, by Harriet L. Schwartz (Stylus Publishing; 173 pages; $125 hardcover, $32.50 paperback, $25.99 e-book). Applies relational-cultural theory to the classroom, showing how connection and disconnection and the interplay of power, identity, and emotion affect learning, and how self-awareness and relational clarity contribute to effective teaching.
Mothering From the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research, edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Mélanie-Angela Neuilly (Rutgers University Press; 296 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback or e-book). Accounts from women who did research in Niger, Haiti, the autopsy room, plant-breeding fields, and elsewhere, while also handling their responsibilities as mothers.
Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective, edited by Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones (Johns Hopkins University Press; 303 pages; $39.95 hardcover or e-book). Examines how working conditions for academics in 10 countries in Europe, Asia, and North and South America have changed to meet global standards and deteriorated because of financial pressures, and how those changes fit into each national context.
Reformed American Dreams: Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism, by Sheila M. Katz (Rutgers University Press; 234 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback or e-book). Explores how low-income, single, activist mothers in the San Francisco Bay Area managed to pursue their college educations while receiving public assistance after the 1996 welfare reforms that emphasized moving recipients quickly into jobs.
Straddling Class in the Academy: 26 Stories of Students, Administrators, and Faculty From Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compelling Lessons for Higher Education Policy and Practice, edited by Sonja Ardoin and becky martinez (Stylus Publishing; 215 pages; $125 hardcover, $29.95 paperback, $23.99 e-book). Students, administrators, and tenured and nontenured faculty members describe the impact of social class on their chosen paths.
Teachin’ It: Breakout Moves That Break Down Barriers for Community College Students, by Felicia Darling (Teachers College Press; 193 pages; $99 hardcover, $32.95 paperback or e-book). Suggests strategies for creating engaging interactive classrooms where students from diverse backgrounds are motivated to participate and succeed.
University Finances: Accounting and Budgeting Principles for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press; 405 pages; $59.95 hardcover or e-book). Explains how accounting practices apply particularly to universities, whose use of gifts, research funds, and other wealth is restricted by donors and government regulators.
Ki-Jana Deadwyler is working as an editorial assistant at The Chronicle this summer through the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program.
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