By Alexander Jun
September 30, 2021
From Here to University examines factors leading to successful college preparation and academic mobility for historically underrepresented, low-income, inner-city youth. Alexander Jun analyzes theories of social and cultural capital, as well as the effects of incorporating family and community ...
By Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish
July 26, 2013
The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education....
By Charles Outcalt
January 08, 2018
Through a national, longitudinal study, this book offers important insights into the attitudes and practices of the nation's 275,000 community college faculty. The book includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups....
By William Mallon
January 08, 2018
This book examines how and why colleges abolish or institute tenure by profiling four colleges: two that moved from tenure to term contracts and two that moved from contracts to tenure....
By John S. Chen
February 04, 2019
This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China....
By Cesare Onestini
August 03, 2016
An interesting study of the German higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the post-unification period....
By James J.F. Forest
November 30, 2001
This book draws on the perspectives of nearly 20 000 faculties from around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research....
By Maria Isabel Rivera Vargas
January 25, 2002
This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that technology transfer is occurring, describes it nature, the channels of ...
By David J. Siegel
May 09, 2003
This book explores the organizational responses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations, and incentives related to diversity. The macro-organizational perspective supplies much-needed balance and complexity to traditional depictions of post-secondary ...
By Joan Elias Gore
June 28, 2012
This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality....
By Michael Nugent
February 27, 2017
This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s....
By Charles J. Beirne, S.J.
September 02, 2016
This book examines a unique university model for social change-the University of Central America Jos Sime-n Ca-as (UCA) in El Salvador, where the military murdered six Jesuit priests and two women on November 16, 1989.The book addresses such important questions as: Is the role of a university to ...