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AAPU Policy Documents & Reportsby American Association of University ProfessorsISBN 0964954818 (0-9649548-1-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Academic Tribes and Territories : Intellectual Enquiry and the Culture of Disciplinesby Tony Becher, Paul TrowlerISBN 0335206271 (0-335-20627-1)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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All American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, And People of Faithby John ZmirakISBN 1932236880 (1-932236-88-0)
Softcover, Isi Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, And People of Faith'Book summary:Since it published its first college guide in 1998, tens of thousands of parents and their college-aged children have come to depend on ISI for informed and independent judgments of the prevailing intellectual, political, and social environments at Americas top colleges and universities. With this brand-new guide, All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Believers, Conservatives, and Old-Fashioned Liberals, ISI provides a crucial supplement to its critically acclaimed Choosing the Right College. While Choosing the Right College covers Americas elite private and public institutions, many of them hotbeds of politicized instruction and saddled with anemic curricula, in All-American Colleges ISIs editorial team provides personal, in-depth profiles of forty highly recommended schools and programs.At each of these diverse institutions, students who identify themselves as religious believers, conservatives, or old-fashioned liberals will find programs that connect in a special way with the core values of the American founding and the vibrant intellectual traditions of the Westschools and programs that are, in fact, often transformative. Based on fresh, extensive interviews with students, faculty, and administrators, the profiles in All-American Colleges extend ISIs coverage of contemporary academia to accentuate the positivewhile including necessary caveats about the unfortunate aspects of each school. The result is a unique new guide that parentsand buyers of Choosing the Right Collegewill not want to miss.[via]More editions of All American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, And People of Faith:
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The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Goingby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038459 (0-226-03845-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going'Book summary:When it was published in 1968, a year noted for historic student protests on campuses across the country, The American University spoke in Jacques Barzun's characteristically wise and lucid voice about what colleges and universities were really meant to doand how they actually worked. Drawing on a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment as a teacher, administrator, and scholar, Barzun here describes the immense demands placed on the university by its competing constituenciesstudents, faculty, administrators, alumni, trustees, and the political world around it all.[via]
"American higher education is fortunate to have had a scholar and intellectual of Jacques Barzun's stature give so many years of service to the daily bread-and-butter details of running a great university and then share his reflections with us in a literate, humane, and engaging book."Charles Donovan, AmericaMore editions of The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going:
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracyby Nicholas LemannISBN 0374527512 (0-374-52751-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy'Book summary:Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test starts off as a look at how the SAT became an integral part of the college application process by telling the stories of men like Henry Chauncey and James Bryant Conant of Harvard University, who sought in the 1930s and '40s to expand their student base beyond the offspring of Brahmin alumni. When they went into the public schools of the Midwest to recruit, standardized testing gave them the means to select which lucky students would be deemed most suitable for an Ivy League education. But about a third of the way through the book, Lemann shifts gears and writes about several college students from the late '60s and early '70s. The reasons for the change-up only become clear in the final third, when those same college students, now in their 40s, lead the fight against California's Proposition 209, a 1996 ballot initiative aimed at eliminating affirmative action programs.
Do these two stories really belong together? For all his storytelling abilities--and they are prodigious--Lemann is not entirely persuasive on this point, especially when he identifies the crucial moment in the civil rights era when "affirmative action evolved as a low-cost patch solution to the enormous problem of improving the lot of American Negroes, who had an ongoing, long-standing tradition of deeply inferior education; at the same time American society was changing so as to make educational performance the basis for individual advancement." Lemann's muddled transition is somewhat obscured by frequent digressions (every new character gets a lengthy background introduction), but a crucial point gets lost in the shuffle, only to reappear fleetingly at the conclusion: "The right fight to be in was the fight to make sure that everybody got a good education," Lemann writes, not to continue to prop up a system that creates one set of standards for privileged students and another set for the less privileged. If The Big Test had focused on that issue, where equal opportunity is genuinely at stake, instead of on the roots of standardized testing, where opportunity was explicitly intended only for a chosen few, it would be a substantially different book--one with a story that almost assuredly could be told as engrossingly as the story Lemann chose to tell, but perhaps with a sharper focus. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Building and Sustaining Learning Communities: The Syracuse University Experienceby Ruth Federman Stein, Sandra N. HurdISBN 1882982681 (1-882982-68-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotionby Peter SeldinISBN 1882982282 (1-882982-28-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Written for university and college administrators as well as faculty, this book is a complete guidebook that supplies a wealth of case studies, examples, tables, Web sites, and exhibits that further enhance its utility. It explains how to
- Gain genuine faculty and administrative support
- Avoid common weaknesses in teaching evaluation by students, peers, and self
- Evaluate teaching by examining student learning
- Successfully combine disparate sources of data
- Establish a climate conducive to evaluation
- How to structure and use classroom visits, rating forms, electronic classroom assessment, and teaching portfolios
Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching makes evident the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, and explains how to do so. With a notable focus on improving student learning, this book offers readers the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions. [via]
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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachersby K. Patricia Cross, Thomas A. AngeloISBN 1555425003 (1-55542-500-3)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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- What classroom assessment entails and how it works.
- How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects.
- Twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects.
- Fifty classroom assessment techniques
- Step-by-step procedures for administering the techniques
- Practical advice on how to analyze your data
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The Closing of the American Mindby Allan BloomISBN 0671657151 (0-671-65715-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites.
Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Blooms argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Studentsby Allan BloomISBN 0671479903 (0-671-47990-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind , an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times ) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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College Faith: 150 Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith Stories from Their Student Daysby Ronald Alan KnottISBN 1883925452 (1-883925-45-2)
Softcover, Andrews Univ Pr
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With first person testimonies by Andrew K. Benton, Bill Bright, Tony Campolo, Clyde Cook, Keith Graber Miller, Alec Hill, Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Frederica Mathewes-Green, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Kelly K. Monroe, J. P. Moreland, Richard J. Mouw, Mark A. Noll, Ronald J. Sider, Robert B. Sloan, Jr., Jon R. Wallace, Gregory L. Waybright, Craig Williford . . . and 132 more.
Whether students, professors, administrators, or employees, all Christians involved in any way with higher education will find this unique collection of personal testimonies a compelling and winsome call to faith amid the trials and triumphs of academic life. [via]
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Softcover, Andrews Univ Pr - College Faith 2: 150 Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith Stories from Their Student Days: ISBN 1883925452 (1-883925-45-2)
Softcover, Andrews Univ Pr
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Colleges That Encourage Character Development: A Resource for Parents, Students, and Educatorsby John Templeton FoundationISBN 1890151289 (1-890151-28-9)
Softcover, Templeton Foundation Pr
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The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching To Advance Practice And Improve Student Learningby Pat Hutchings, Lee S. ShulmanISBN 1563770431 (1-56377-043-1)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Creating Significant Learning Experience: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Coursesby L. Dee FinkISBN 0787960551 (0-7879-6055-1)
Hardcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Educationby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0674179498 (0-674-17949-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campusesby Paul BermanISBN 0385315333 (0-385-31533-3)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Educationby Nicholas Wolterstorff, Gloria Goris Stronks, Clarence W. JoldersmaISBN 0802827535 (0-8028-2753-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education'Book summary:In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning. Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy. Wolterstorff develops his ideas in relation to an astonishing variety of thinkers ranging from Calvin, Kuyper, and Jellema to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant to Weber, Habermas, and MacIntyre. In the process, he critiques various models of education, classic foundationalism, modernization theory, liberal arts, and academic freedom. [via]
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Education in China: Reforms and Innovationsby Xiaohuan SuISBN 7801139933 (7-80113-993-3)
Hardcover, China Intercontinental Press
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Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroomby John C. BeanISBN 0787902039 (0-7879-0203-9)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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- Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses.
- Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking.
- Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities.
- Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.
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The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief And Behaviorby Steven GarberISBN 0830833196 (0-8308-3319-6)
Softcover, Ivp Books
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The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Yearsby Steven GarberISBN 0830819940 (0-8308-1994-0)
Softcover, InterVarsity Press
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Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkersby Kelly MonroeISBN 0310405602 (0-310-40560-2)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkers'Book summary:This book presents the moving testimonies of 42 prominent intellectuals. It contradicts the popular assumption that intellectuals are thoroughgoing secularists and addresses directly the relativism and emptiness haunting modern universitites. [via]
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Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christiansby Kelly MonroeISBN 0310219221 (0-310-21922-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians'Book summary:Ari Goldman's best-selling book, The Search for God at Harvard, chronicled his search for signs of genuine religious faith at Harvard Divinity School. The New York Times reporter concluded that God was not very evident at the prestigious Ivy League campus. Kelly Monroe reveals another picture of Christian faith in a secular intellectual setting. In Finding God at Harvard, she presents the compelling testimonies of forty-two faculty members, former students, and distinguished orators at Harvard. Their candid reflections explode the myth that Christian faith cannot survive a rigorous intellectual atmosphere. Finding God at Harvard speaks to the emptiness that haunts college campuses across the country -- an emptiness that only Truth can fill. As Monroe's contributors so vividly show that truth is available to everyone, Monroe reveals another picture of Christian faith in a secular intellectual setting. In Finding God at Harvard, she presents the compelling testimonies of forty-two faculty members, former students, and distinguished orators at Harvard. Their candid reflections explode the myth that Christian faith cannot survive a rigorous intellectual atmosphere. Finding God at Harvard speaks to the emptiness that haunts college campuses across the country - an emptiness that only Truth can fill. [via]
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The Future of Baptist Higher Educationby Donald D. Schmeltekopf, Dianna M. VitanzaISBN 1932792279 (1-932792-27-9)
Softcover, Baylor Univ Pr
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Governing Academiaby Ronald G. EhrenbergISBN 0801472822 (0-8014-7282-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Graves of Academeby Richard MitchellISBN 1888173920 (1-888173-92-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Graves of Academe'Book summary:Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jerseys Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it. Donning cape and mask as The Underground Grammarian, Mitchell sallied forth upon his newsletter against the nonsense being spoken, written, and, indeed, encouraged by the educational establishment. ( One thing led to another, as he tells it, a front page piece in The Wall Street Journal, a proÞle in Time, and other such. Before it was over, The Underground Grammarian came to be, in the world of desktop printing, the Þrst publication to have subscribers on every continent except Antarctica. ) What began as a vivid catalog of ignorance and inanity in the written work of professional educators and their hapless students soon became an enterprise of most noble moment: an investigation, via mordant wit and Þerce intelligence, of what we might usefully decide to mean by education. The results of Mitchells inquiries are as stimulating today as they were when Þrst articulated. His project remains a telling explication of how, through writing, we discover thought and make knowledge. It is certainly the most drolly entertaining. [via]
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terroristby Alston ChaseISBN 0393020029 (0-393-02002-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Higher Learning in Americaby Thorstein B. VeblenISBN 1560006005 (1-56000-600-5)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Higher Learning in America'Book summary:At the time of its initial publication in 1904, The Higher Learning in America was known in educated circles as the most reflective study ever made of the university system in America. Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in "the higher learning" was received as fair by most academics. As a result, many believed he paved the way to an improved age in college education. Just as applicable today as they were decades ago, his sophisticated style remains deprecatingly amusing; his biting critique just as disquieting as it was at the turn of the 19th century. The Higher Learning in America remains a penetrating book by one of America's greatest social critics. American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) was educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption." Among his most famous works are The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904), and Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution (1915). [via]
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A History of American Higher Educationby John R. ThelinISBN 0801880041 (0-8018-8004-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadershipby Robert BirnbaumISBN 155542354X (1-55542-354-X)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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The Idea of a Christian University in Today's Worldby Ben C. FisherISBN 0865543437 (0-86554-343-7)
Hardcover, Mercer University Press
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Idea of a Universityby Frank M. Turner, John Henry Newman, George M. Marsden, Sara Castro-Klaren, Martha McMackin Garland, George P. LandowISBN 0300064047 (0-300-06404-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Idea of a Universityby George M. Marsden, Frank M. Turner, Sara Castro-Klaren, John Henry Newman, Martha McMackin Garland, George P. LandowISBN 0300064055 (0-300-06405-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idea of a University'Book summary:Since its publication almost 150 years ago, "The Idea of a higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised - the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role of literature, the relation of religion and science - have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own. This edition of "The Idea of a University" includes the full text of "University Teaching" and four selections from "University Subjects", together with five essays by leading scholars that explore the background and the present day relevance of Newman's themes. In the essays Martha Garland discusses the character and organization of the early 19th-century English universities upon which Newman based much of his vision; Frank M. Turner traces the impact of Newman's influence during the vast expansion of higher education since World War II; George Marsden investigates how the decreasing emphasis on religion has affected higher education; Sara Castro Klaren examines the implication of Newman's views on education and literature for current debates between proponents of a curriculum based on western civilization and one based on multiculturalism; and George Landow considers what the advent of electronic communication will mean to university teaching, research and community. To aid accessibility, the edition also includes an analytical table of contents, a chronology and biographical sketch of Newman's life, questions for discussion, expanded notes, and a glossary of names, all of which should help make this the standard teaching text of Newman's work. [via]
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustratedby John Henry NewmanISBN 0895264005 (0-89526-400-5)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated I. in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin. Ii. in Occasional Lectures and Essayby Newman, John Henry, CardinalISBN 0198118961 (0-19-811896-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of theby Martin J. Svaglic, John Henry NewmanISBN 0268011508 (0-268-01150-8)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the'Book summary:The Idea of a University is an eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none . . . Only one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high." from the Introduction by Martin J. Svaglic [via]
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Illiberal Education: Political Correctness and the College Experienceby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 1878802089 (1-878802-08-9)
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Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby D'SouzaISBN 0684863847 (0-684-86384-7)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Law of Higher Educationby William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. LeeISBN 0787970948 (0-7879-7094-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Law of Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Makingby William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. LeeISBN 0787986593 (0-7879-8659-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Learning to Teach in Higher Educationby Paul RamsdenISBN 0415303451 (0-415-30345-1)
Softcover, Falmer Pr
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Manifesto of a Tenured Radicalby Cary NelsonISBN 0814757979 (0-8147-5797-9)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifesto of a Tenured Radical'Book summary:In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education.
Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.
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My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned By Becoming A Studentby REBEKAH NATHANISBN 0143037471 (0-14-303747-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning Moreby Derek Curtis BokISBN 0691125961 (0-691-12596-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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ProfScamby Charles J. SykesISBN 0312039166 (0-312-03916-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Educationby Charles J. SykesISBN 0895265591 (0-89526-559-1)
Hardcover, Regnery Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education'Book summary:ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States the selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor.
"ProfScam is an incisive and convincing indictment that deserves to be read by anyone concerned about the future of American higher education" The New York Times [via]
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Prosody in England and Elsewhere: A Comparative Approachby Leonardo MalcovatiISBN 192858926X (1-928589-26-X)
Softcover, Gival Press
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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Educationby Doug WilsonISBN 0891075836 (0-89107-583-6)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education'Book summary:Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundation of someone's worldview. Education deals with fundamental questions that require religious answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions.
A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work.
Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience.
"Good at diagnosing our educational afflictions, Douglas Wilson is still better at finding remedies. His Logos School provides a model, a practical design, for the restoration in the curriculum of Christian humanism--as contrasted with what Christopher Dawson called secular humanism." --Russell Kirk, D. Litt., editor, The University Bookman
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The Rise of Universitiesby Charles Homer HaskinsISBN 0765808951 (0-7658-0895-1)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorites of the Professoriateby Ernest L. BoyerISBN 0787940690 (0-7879-4069-0)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campusesby Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. SilverglateISBN 0060977728 (0-06-097772-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses'Book summary:At first glance, this title is just another entry in the roster of books opposed to political correctness at American universities, yet it's surprisingly good--certainly the best of its type since Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education appeared in 1991. Kors and Silverglate are hard-core civil libertarians turned off by the "hidden, systematic assault upon liberty, individualism, dignity, due process, and equality before the law" that they describe as rampant on campuses. Theirs is not so much a brief against academic multiculturalism, but an eye-opening narrative about how the modern university "hands students a moral agenda upon arrival, subjects them to mandatory political reeducation, sends them to sensitivity training, submerges their individuality in official group identity, intrudes upon private conscience, treats them with scandalous inequality, and, when it chooses, suspends or expels them." Through well-told stories and anecdotes (including an excellent chapter-long sketch of the University of Pennsylvania's semi-famous "water buffalo" incident), Kors and Silverglate make their case and make it well. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissionsby William G. Bowen, Derek Curtis BokISBN 0691050198 (0-691-05019-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions'Book summary:Though the whole idea of racial preferences in higher education has become a flash point of controversy, neither side of the argument has had hard empirical evidence upon which to base its claims. This is precisely the kind of information former university presidents Bowen and Bok attempt to provide, by examining the admissions policies of several (unnamed) institutions and following the fortunes of their minority graduates over a period of years. What they find is certainly provocative--and if, in the end, Bowen and Bok still haven't answered the affirmative-action conundrum, they've taken a valuable first step toward providing some of the necessary facts for an intelligent discussion of the issue. [via]
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Shaping a Christian Worldview: The Foundation of Christian Higher Educationby David Dockery, Gregory Alan ThornburyISBN 0805424482 (0-8054-2448-2)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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Shining Lights: A History of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universitiesby James A. PattersonISBN 0801022649 (0-8010-2264-9)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Small Worldby David LodgeISBN 0140244867 (0-14-024486-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small World'Book summary:The unbridled greed, pettiness, buffoonery and intellectual gobbledygook in the world of higher scholarship are the topics of this thorough and thoroughly funny roman a' English department. It's interesting for a couple of reasons, aside from its humor and spoofiness: it's an insider's view of things -- always the best kind -- and it takes its old-fashioned time telling a story, complete with reasonable digressions about the state of literary criticism and what may or may not be a realistic view of the academic life. [via]
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The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbeliefby George M. MarsdenISBN 0195106504 (0-19-510650-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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A Student's Guide to the Liberal Artsby Wilburn T. StancilISBN 1886761280 (1-886761-28-0)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Style As Argument: Contemporary American Nonfictionby Chris AndersonISBN 0809313146 (0-8093-1314-6)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Teaching as Believing: Faith in the Universityby Chris AndersonISBN 1932792031 (1-932792-03-1)
Softcover, Baylor Univ Pr
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Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedomby Bell HooksISBN 0415908086 (0-415-90808-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom'Book summary:"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
bell hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?
Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.
"To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.
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Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Educationby Roger KimballISBN 1566631955 (1-56663-195-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Universities In The Marketplace: The Commercialization Of Higher Educationby Derek BokISBN 0691120129 (0-691-12012-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The University: An Owner's Manualby Henry RosovskyISBN 0393307832 (0-393-30783-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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University Through the Eyes of Faithby Steve Moore, Timothy M. BeuthinISBN 0893672289 (0-89367-228-9)
Softcover, Light & Life Communications
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The Uses of the Universityby Clark KerrISBN 0674005325 (0-674-00532-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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What the Best College Teachers Doby Ken BainISBN 0674013255 (0-674-01325-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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El Canon Occidentalby H. BloomISBN 8433966847 (84-339-6684-7)
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Como Se Hace Una Tesisby Not AvailableISBN 8474328969 (84-7432-896-9)
Softcover, Libros Sin Fronteras Inventory
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Como Se Hace Una Tesisby Umberto EcoISBN 9688521167 (968-852-116-7)
Softcover, Gedisa Mexicana S.A.
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Soy Charlotte Simmons / I Am Charlotte Simmonsby Tom WolfeISBN 8466619577 (84-666-1957-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soy Charlotte Simmons / I Am Charlotte Simmons'Book summary:With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive firsthand observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s in this story of Charlotte Simmonsa sheltered freshman from North Carolina. Upon first arriving at Dupont University and witnessing its Gothic spires, manicured lawns, and elite tradition, Charlotte sees her new life as an academic dream made real. But she soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, social status, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.[via]More editions of Soy Charlotte Simmons / I Am Charlotte Simmons:
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