This book traces the history of college costs from the Colonial Era to the early years of the Cold War. The author examines the normalization of tuition, scholarships, and student loans.
Based on a longitudinal interview study of students at a liberal arts college, this book provides a rich description of how aspects of the college community and how relationships developed within that community create opportunities for transformative experiences that lead to personal and academic growth for students.
through Student-Faculty Partnership: Stories from across Contexts and Arenas of Practice
Co-authored by faculty and students in Canada, England, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the United States, the chapters in this book reveal how sustained partnerships focused on pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic development build courage, confidence, and capacity in both student and faculty partners.
Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing KGÇô12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World's Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these ......
Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Student and Modern Workpla
This book considers the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for thinking through higher education from both an experiential and transformative instructional context.
The essential relationship between the liberal arts and liberal democracy is defined in terms of the former providing to the latter both a discourse of mutual respect and an enlarged culture. What corrodes liberal arts within colleges and universities must be addressed, lest liberal democracy be placed in jeopardy.
InGrading the College, Scott M. Gelber offers a comprehensive history of evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. He complicates the conventional narrative that portrays evaluation as a newfangled assault on the integrity of higher education while acknowledging that there are many compelling reasons to ......
University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists-all remain ......
As the price of college continues to rise and the incomes of most Americans stagnate, too many college students are going hungry. According to researchers, approximately half of all undergraduates are food insecure. Food Insecurity on Campus - the first book to describe the problem'meets higher education's growing ......
