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New Publications
A layman's guide to the immensely complex topic of affirmative action for minorities and women in US higher education, this book includes chapters discussing the history and current realities of affirmative action. Legal issues, approaches of various universities to affirmative action, guidelines for applications, and other issues are discussed.
Focusing on campus design and architecture, combined with the mission of selected American colleges and universities, this volume analyzes how design can contribute to the overall mission of the institution. Case studies are used to illustrate these themes. The author, an architect who has worked on campus design, is able to bring relevant expertise to the analysis.
The focus of this book is on improving teaching in higher education—including an analysis of the organizational framework of the university and designing arrangements that affect the entire institution. The volume provides guidelines for improvement as well as an overall analysis of the issues involved. Based on the UK experience, the themes are widely relevant.
Economist Ehrenberg points out that the share of funding from the states, devoted to education and to higher education, has declined over the past two decades, creating serious problems for the public research universities. They have been unable to keep pace on salaries for faculty, tuition charges have increased, and in general public higher education in the United States finds itself with serious problems. These and related issues are discussed by a group of higher education experts.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is engaged in a consideration of the future of doctoral education in the United States. This volume includes essays related to that effort. Among the themes discussed are broad trends of change in doctoral studies and the views of doctoral students and postdocs. The bulk of the book is composed of essays on doctoral education in key disciplines—including mathematics, chemistry, history, English, neuroscience, and several others.
An analysis of the nature of doctoral higher education in the United Kingdom, this book focuses on the current policy environment for doctoral education and plans for changes. Among the issues considered are funding doctoral programs, doctoral supervision, the diversity of doctoral study programs in the United Kingdom, and future directions.
While this book is not directly about higher education, it is very relevant to universities everywhere. It concerns migration of highly educated talent from developing countries to the North. What used to be called ˇ°brain drainˇ± is now considered cross-border flows of talent. Devish and McHale point out that 41 percent of postsecondary educated people migrate from the Caribbean, 27 percent from Western Africa, and so on. They argue that while remittances and other kinds of reciprocal arrangements ameliorate the situation, patterns of international migration are highly damaging to the developing world. They also analyze how the North often manipulates its immigration regulations to lure talent from the developing world.
A series of essays by Nannerl Keohane, the former president of Duke University, this book discusses such topics as the mission of the research university, the role of liberal arts, presidential leadership in higher education, academic freedom, and others.
This is a research study based on a survey of 476 Croatian university professors concerning attitudes toward the organization and culture of the universities, including academic leadership and prospects and directions for change. Discussed in the study are the changes being considered as Croatia seeks to enter the European higher education area.
A wide-ranging discussion of the themes the relationship of the university with, society, the state, and the global context, this volume discusses not only themes of globalization and the knowledge economy, it also considers the German philosophical underpinnings to these themes. There is a special focus on the European context.
As the United Kingdom moves toward universal access to higher education, this volume examines the British experience with developing a mass higher education system. Among the themes discussed in this edited volume are differentiation and stratification in Scotland, the impact of technologies, assessment, academic staff in a mass higher education environment, governance and the role of the state, gender issues, and others.
One of a series of books on higher education in European countries, this volume analyses such themes as the history of higher education, governance, funding, institutional patterns, degrees and programs, and the academic profession. A concluding chapter on the future of higher education in Turkey is included, as are useful statistics concerning Turkish universities.
The annual publication, sponsored by the largest teachers union in the United States, focuses on key issues relevant to the academic profession as well as higher education generally. Among the themes discussed are trends in faculty unionization, retirement and benefits issues, faculty workload, financial issues facing public universities, faculty salaries in American colleges and universities, and international trends.
A valuable summary of the complex elements of the Bologna process, this book includes discussions of each of the key agreements and documents relating to European higher education harmonization from the Bologna agreement itself, to the many additional European arrangements. Also included are discussions of the WTO-GATS, the role of intergovernmental organizations such as the Council of Europe and UNESCO, and the NGOs, including the European Universities Association, trade unions, the International Association of Universities, and others. Texts of documents relevant to the topic are also included.
The most comprehensive analysis of American faculty in many years, this volume provides data-based information the structure of academic careers, the changing nature of academic work, salaries, new trends in academic appointments, how academics are trained, and other factors. The authors point out that the conditions of work in US universities have deteriorated in many ways over the past several decades.
The Bologna agreement and related changes in European higher education are having an impact throughout Europe and beyond. This valuable book focuses mainly on how the European countries at the periphery are handling the changes. Case studies of such countries as Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Russia, and others consider the structural, psychological, curricular, and other changes that are affecting these countries.
Focusing on the human capability approach, this book discusses teaching and learning in higher education. Questions of which capabilities are valued in higher education, how they can be identified, and how this approach can lead to improved student learning are at the heart of this volume.
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Beckman, James A. Affirmative Action Now: A Guide for Students, Families, and Counselors. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. 450 pp. $55 (hb). ISBN 0-3113-33415-3. Address: Greenwood Publishers, POB 5007, Westport, CT 06881, USA.
