Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, by Bryan Alexander (Johns Hopkins University Press; 331 pages; $39.95 hardcover or e-book). Forecasts how colleges will change over the next generation, based on issues that are likely to drive change, like the proliferation of digital content, shrinking enrollment, and economic and political pressures.
Aligning Institutional Support for Student Success: Case Studies of Sophomore-Year Initiatives, edited by Tracy L. Skipper (National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition; 81 pages; $20 paperback). Offers 10 case studies of university efforts to keep students from feeling stranded in their sophomore years and helping them persist.
Bridges Not Blockades: Transcending University Politics, edited by Gayle Maddox and Martha Diede (Myers Education Press; 214 pages; $149.95 hardcover, $42.95 paperback or e-book). Looks at several political issues that divide college campuses, like hate crimes and incivility, and suggests how conflicting sides can cultivate healthy relationships.
Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities, by Micere Keels (Cornell University Press; 224 pages; $115 hardcover, $19.95 paperback, $9.99 e-book). Reframes counterspaces, also known as safe spaces, as “pockets of resistance” for marginalized groups that may “disrupt the dominant narrative of the larger setting and context” of universities.
Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus, by John M. Carey, Katherine Clayton, and Yusaku Horiuchi (Cambridge University Press; 254 pages; $105 hardcover, $29.99 paperback, $24 e-book). Discusses a survey experiment that found that students and faculty members at seven major universities, when faced with hypothetical individual choices, tended to prefer members of traditionally underrepresented groups in admissions and faculty hiring.
The Contested Campus: Aligning Professional Values, Social Justice, and Free Speech, by Brandi Hephner LaBanc and others (NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education; 207 pages; $34.95 for NASPA members, $39.95 for nonmembers). A guide for student-affairs professionals and graduate students on how to weigh legal standards and institutional values in dealing with a wide range of free-speech issues on campus.
Developing Leadership Skills and Abilities for Student Affairs Administrators: ‘Lesson Letters’ to and From Our Colleagues (Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd.; 308 pages; $49.95 paperback or e-book). Advice from student-affairs professionals on making the transition from graduate school to student affairs, building relationships and setting boundaries with undergraduate students, handling ethical dilemmas, and rising through the ranks.
Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender, edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson (Rutgers University Press; 269 pages; $120 hardcover, $28.95 paperback or e-book). Describes the racist and sexist structures that impede underrepresented groups from focusing their studies on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and suggests a way forward.
Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond, by Benjamin H. Barton (New York University Press; 285 pages; $30 hardcover). Examines the causes of a harsh decade-long downturn at law schools and recommends how they should change their practices so they can recover.
Foundations, Research, and Assessment of Fraternities and Sororities: Retrospective and Future Considerations, edited by Pietro Sasso, J. Patrick Biddix, and Mónica Lee Miranda (Myers Education Press; 217 pages; $179.95 hardcover, $45.95 paperback or e-book). An overview of the history and current state of campus fraternal organizations, with sections on legal issues, values, and recent studies.
Higher Education and Hope: Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Possibilities, edited by Paul Gibbs and Andrew Peterson (Palgrave Macmillan; 286 pages; $139.99 hardcover, $109 e-book). Perspectives from international scholars on how to get beyond regretting the excessive marketization of colleges, remain hopeful about the meaningful role of higher education, and enjoy the pleasures of research and teaching.
Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice, edited by Kelly Freebody, Susan Goodwin, and Helen Proctor (Palgrave Macmillan; 252 pages; $139.99 hardcover, $109 e-book). Looks back at colleges’ weakness in protecting and advancing social justice, and describes how to integrate social justice into classroom lessons.
Investing in Science: Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research Infrastructures, by Massimo Florio (MIT Press; 364 pages; $60 hardcover, $47.39 e-book). Uses cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate the socioeconomic value of taxpayer investment in large research infrastructures like particle accelerators to scientists, college students, postdoctoral researchers, and the larger society.
The Journey Before Us: First-Generation Pathways From Middle School to College, by Laura Nichols (Rutgers University Press; 177 pages; $120 hardcover, $29.95 paperback or e-book). Explores the paths toward college completion taken by first-generation students and suggests how educational institutions and society can improve them.
Posthumanism and Higher Education: Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research, edited by Carol A. Taylor and Annouchka Bayley (Palgrave Macmillan; pages; $139.99 hardcover, $109 e-book). Explores fresh ways to teach following the demise of human-centered thinking.
Productivity in Higher Education, edited by Caroline M. Hoxby and Kevin Stange (University of Chicago Press; 392 pages; $130 hardcover or e-book). Gathers analyses of productivity in such areas as returns on undergraduate education and the effects of online learning that were presented at a conference by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement: Handbook for Human Research, edited by Leslie M. Howes, Sarah A. White, and Barbara E. Bierer (Johns Hopkins University Press; 216 pages; $80 paperback or e-book). Shows university professionals how to develop, evaluate, and improve programs to protect human research subjects.
Reclaiming the University for the Public Good: Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education, edited by Malcolm Noble and Cilla Ross (Palgrave Macmillan; 271 pages; $139.99 hardcover, $109 e-book). Suggests how the future of higher education, especially in Britain, can be recovered from the forces of privatization and marketization through a focus on its social purpose.
Supporting Fraternities and Sororities in the Contemporary Era: Advancements in Practice, edited by Pietro Sasso, J. Patrick Biddix and Mónica Lee Miranda (Myers Education Press; 264 pages; $179.95 hardcover, $45.95 paperback or e-book). Weighs the values of Greek-lettered organizations, and evaluates how they have fallen short of their goals, how they are handling diversity, and how they can improve advising and programs.
Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator, by Shannon Riggs (Stylus Publishing; 265 pages; $125 hardcover, $25 paperback, $19.99 e-book). A guide to designing and teaching online courses, taking into account the expansion of the online curriculum and changing technology.
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