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Selected New Books on Higher Education

Compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond September 22, 2019
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Advancing Higher Education: New Strategies for Fundraising, Philanthropy, and Engagement, edited by Michael J. Worth and Matthew T. Lambert (Rowman & Littlefield; 267 pages; $70 hardcover, $32 paperback, $30 e-book). Examines trends in fund raising, including how to engage new generations and underrepresented communities, and how to raise money for community colleges.

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Selected New Books on Higher Education 1

Advancing Higher Education: New Strategies for Fundraising, Philanthropy, and Engagement, edited by Michael J. Worth and Matthew T. Lambert (Rowman & Littlefield; 267 pages; $70 hardcover, $32 paperback, $30 e-book). Examines trends in fund raising, including how to engage new generations and underrepresented communities, and how to raise money for community colleges.

Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World, by Eli Meyerhoff (University of Minnesota Press; 272 pages; $100 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Argues that education-based mode of study is linked to colonial, capitalist, white-supremacist, and hetero-patriarchal norms, and suggests alternatives.

Education Abroad and the Undergraduate Experience: Critical Perspectives and Approaches to Integration with Student Learning and Development, edited by Elizabeth Brewer and Anthony C. Ogden (Stylus Publishing and Nafsa: Association of International Educators; 295 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Offers ideas on how to integrate study abroad into students’ overall learning experience, including how to teach students to develop respectful, not neocolonial, attitudes toward their host countries.

The Educational Leader’s Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection, edited by Robert Crow, Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford, and Dean T. Spaulding (Myers Education Press; 339 pages; $149.95 hardcover, $42.95 paperback or e-book). Introduces the concept of improvement science and shows how to apply that tool to various leadership challenges, with nine chapters devoted to examples in higher education.

Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research, by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis (Harvard University Press; 191 pages; $35). Describes how intense competition and temptations to beautify data have turned laboratories into factories that produce scientific knowledge, much of which, the author argues, “is of dubious quality.”

Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers, by Jessamyn Neuhaus (West Virginia University Press; 249 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $26.99 paperback or e-book). Describes the steps college instructors can take to translate what is in their “bookish, dorky hearts” to inspire student learning.

Generally Speaking: The Impact of General Education on Student Learning in the 21st Century, edited by Madeline J. Smith and Kristen L. Tarantino (Myers Education Press; 145 pages; $149.95 hardcover, $55.95 paperback or e-book). Describes how changes in general education have affected student learning at two-year and four-year colleges, and offers case studies of strategies to improve delivery and outcomes.

Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, by Caitlin Zaloom (Princeton University Press; 267 pages; $29.95). Relies on interviews with college students and their middle-class parents to tell the story of how the “student finance complex” poses a moral conflict between the principles of financial restraint and the parental obligation to help their children become independent.

Keep Calm and Call the Dean of Students: A Guide to Understanding the Many Facets of the Dean of Students’ Role, edited by Art Munin and Lori S. White (Stylus Publishing; 192 pages; $125 hardcover, $32.50 paperback, $25.99 e-book). Describes how to prepare for becoming a dean of students, and how to handle duties like informing the campus community, managing crises, and advocating for students.

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Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey, edited by Allison K. Henrich and others (American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America; 136 pages; $15 for AMS members, $20 for nonmembers, free e-book). Reflections from accomplished mathematicians on the obstacles, discouragement, and encouragement they received on the paths toward their careers.

Men and Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Practices for Supporting College Men’s Development, edited by Daniel Tillapaugh and Brian L. McGowan (Stylus Publishing; 235 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Examines the underrepresentation of men in enrollment and degree completion, particularly for men of color and gay and trans men, and suggests ways to help them shape their futures.

13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World, edited by Terry U. O’Banion (Rowman & Littlefield; 316 pages; $100 hardcover, $50 paperback, $47.50 e-book). Describes the impact of changes like the movement to grant baccalaureates and the evolving mission of workforce development.

What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform, by Johann N. Neem (Johns Hopkins University Press; 209 pages; $22.95 hardcover or e-book). Contrasts proposed reforms with the historic purpose of higher education, and argues, for instance, that online programs are premised on ideas from the Industrial Revolution.

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The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 390 pages; $28 hardcover, $15.99 e-book). Uses interviews with students and data analysts to illustrate how college admissions policies cause suffering for applicants and impede social mobility.

Ki-Jana Deadwyler is working as an editorial assistant at The Chronicle through the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program.


New books on higher education can be submitted to the Bookshelf editor.

Correction (9/24/2019, 5:15 p.m.) The publisher of Generally Speaking is Myers Education Press, not Stylus Publishing, which is the distributor. The citation has been corrected.

A version of this article appeared in the September 27, 2019, issue.
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