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How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

by Robert Birnbaum

One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of university academic organization and leadership in print. This book is significant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and based on careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership and governance, but it is also deliberately intAnded to enable the author to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on one hand, and practical application,... (more)

The University: An Owner's Manual

by Henry Rosovsky

Drawing on 11 years as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Henry Rosovsky offers a wise and witty view of America's colleges and universities; how they are run and the challenges they face, with special consideration to each of their "owners"--students, faculty, alumni, trustees, and others.

Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education

Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education

by David L. Kirp

" How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are ""customers"" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life... (more)

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education

by Derek Curtis Bok

Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such... (more)

The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

by Parker J. Palmer

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." - Parker J. Palmer <from the Introduction> Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care... (more)

The Crazed (Vintage International)

by Ha Jin

A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year Ha Jin’s seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke,... (more)

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.

Remaking The American University: Market-smart And Mission-centered

Remaking The American University: Market-smart And Mission-centered

by Robert Zemsky

At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today, colleges and universities are less places of public purpose than agencies of personal advantage. Remaking the American University provides a penetrating analysis of the ways market forces have shaped and distorted the behaviors, purposes, and ultimately the missions of universities and colleges over the past half-century.... (more)

The Postgraduate Research Handbook (Palgrave Study Guides)

The Postgraduate Research Handbook (Palgrave Study Guides)

by Gina Wisker

An accessible, rigorous guide through research for all postgraduate students including international students, largely involved in MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD study. Advice, support and both active and reflective tasks take readers through the stages of research. These range from choosing a university and a topic, writing proposals, developing appropriate methodology and methods, carrying out the research, to dealing... (more)

Higher Education as Competetive Enterprise: When Markets Matter: New Directions for Institutional Research (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

Higher Education as Competetive Enterprise: When Markets Matter: New Directions for Institutional Research (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

by Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, Daniel B. Shapiro

What makes some institutions medallions and others name brands, while still others serve a predominantly convenience/user-friendly clientele? This volume answers these questions by illustrating the way market forces transform higher education. Acknowledging that the drive for student-generated revenues has come to characterize U.S. higher education over the last quarter century, the contributors present the... (more)

So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D's Seeking Careers Outside the Academy

So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D's Seeking Careers Outside the Academy

by Susan Elizabeth Basalla

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of Ph.D.’s and M.A.’s every year. Half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty. The chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s a frustrated would-be scholar to do? Can he really leave academia? Can a non-academic job really be rewarding—and will anyone want to hire a grad-school... (more)

How to Get a Phd

by Estelle Phillips

Reviews from 1st and 2nd Editions: "A welcome revision to what has always been a popular book amongst intending PhD students" - Phoenix "Phillips and Pugh's book has, since its original publication in 1987, become the undisputed bible for doctoral students" - Nursing Times "Warmly recommended as a bed-side companion, both to those hoping to get a PhD and to those who have the responsibility of guiding them,... (more)

The Academic's Guide to Publishing

by Rob Kitchin

"...includes important points such as reading the proofs, preparing indexes...every researcher can find some useful information in this textbook." - PHOTOSYNTHETICA This definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research demonstrates that completing a project is only the first phase of research. Dissemination is the second phase, and it requires specific skills and knowledge. The Academics'... (more)

The Shape of the River

by William G. Bowen

This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national... (more)

It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races

It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races

by Lena Williams

New York Times veteran Lena Williams candidly explores the everyday occurrences that strain racial relations, reaching a conclusion that "no one could disagree with" (The New York Times Book Review) Although we no longer live in a legally segregated society, the division between blacks and whites never seems to go away. We work together, go to school together, and live near each other, but beneath it all there is... (more)

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive... (more)

The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Study Skills S.)

The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Study Skills S.)

by Gordon Rugg, Marian Petre

"A breath of fresh air - I wish someone had told me this beforehand." PhD student, UK "If you are contemplating a PhD, buy the book and read it straight through to get the larger picture; then re-read each section in greater detail as you tackle each stage of your work. I did the basic research for my PhD in about twelve months, then spent two years writing up the results - and producing... (more)

Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities: From Tactics to Strategy (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education)

Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities: From Tactics to Strategy (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education)

by Richard L. Alfred

Man Up: Nobody is Coming to Save Us

by Steve Perry

Man Up! is a hard hitting, hig, introspective look into what the Black community must do to save itself. Finally, a voice speaks to the complex relationship between personal and community responsibility. Steve Perry effectively calls to task organizations such as the NAACP and the Black church as well as talking heads like Michael Eric Dyson and Cornell West for their role in the retardation of the Black... (more)

University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education

University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education

by Jennifer Washburn

A sweeping critique of the influence of corporate money in our universities that would encourage "all those concerned with the future of higher education to read it."(Science) Jennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist, reveals how the growing influence of corporations over universities compromises the future of all those whose careers depend on a university education, and all those who will be... (more)

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