American Higher Education Since World War II: A History, by Roger L. Geiger (Princeton University Press; 375 pages; $35 hardcover, $33.25 e-book). Traces the effects on higher education of the GI Bill, the conservatism of the 1950s, the rise of radicalism, the expansion of research, and worries over student-loan debt.
The College Dropout Scandal, by David Kirp (Oxford University Press; 175 pages; $24.95 hardcover, $13.99 e-book). Describes the social and economic costs of high dropout rates, and programs at colleges that are leading the efforts to reduce those rates.
College Made Whole: Integrative Learning for a Divided World, by Chris W. Gallagher (Johns Hopkins University Press; 222 pages; $29.95 hardcover or e-book). Critiques trends like overreliance on technological tools in the classroom, adjuncts, and nondegree credentials, and recommends ways to design a more coherent, enduring student-learning experience.
Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in Your Research Journey, by Nicola Ulibarri and others (Cambridge University Press; 317 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback, $28 e-book). Suggests techniques for developing and fostering creativity in research, based on a curriculum developed at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and Practice, by Ralph A Gigliotti (Rutgers University Press; 179 pages; $120 hardcover, $26.95 paperback or e-book). Draws upon interviews with leaders of major research universities and analyses of news coverage to model how to act effectively in a crisis.
Ethical Decision-Making: Cases in Organization and Leadership, edited by Patricia A. Mitchell (Myers Education Press; 181 pages; $149.95 hardcover, $42.95 paperback or e-book). Offers several examples of thorny ethical issues in higher education, and poses questions and offers references to guide leaders on how to respond.
Landscape and the Academy, edited by John Beardsley and Daniel Bluestone (Harvard University Press; 348 pages; $65 hardcover). Explores through essays, photos, and illustrations the ways in which campuses, gardens, arboretums, and other lands managed by colleges extend their research and scholarly missions.
Leading Millennial Faculty: Navigating the New Professoriate, edited by Michael G. Strawser (Lexington Books; 169 pages; $90 hardcover, $85.50 e-book). Looks at characteristics attributed to millennials and how those traits affect the academic workplace.
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile, by Judith Friedlander (Columbia University Press; 457 pages; $40 hardcover, $39.99 e-book). Describes New School’s political roots, including its University in Exile that welcomed refugee scholars after Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, and its support for the cause of dissident intellectuals in East and Central Europe in the 1980s.
Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action, by Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen (Harvard University Press; 245 pages; $35 hardcover). Draws lessons from 10 historically black colleges and universities that have successfully trained African American students in the sciences.
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, by Steven Conn (Cornell University Press; 280 pages; $32.95 hardcover, $15.99 e-book). Argues that business schools fail to train innovative business leaders and fall short on intellectual integrity and rigor.
The Power of the Plan: Building a University in Historic Columbia, South Carolina, by Richard F. Galehouse (University of South Carolina Press; 167 pages; $44.99 hardcover or e-book). Describes how the University of South Carolina developed since 1801 into a campus that echoes the design of the city of Columbia and that is focused on a quadrangle known as the Horseshoe.
Religion in the University, by Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University Press; 172 pages; $25 hardcover or e-book). Describes changes in the development of academic learning and the understanding of religious belief that leave more room for religion in a pluralist university.
Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant (Sourcebooks; 366 pages; $25.99 hardcover, $9.99 e-book). Describes the sometimes alienating experiences of the first young women to study at Yale University in the late 1960s, when their fellow students and professors were almost all men.
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