RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
From Here to University: Access, Mobility, & Resilience Among Latino Youth
1st Edition
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 ...
The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing: Catholic Higher Education in China
1st Edition
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....
A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000
1st Edition
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....
Tenure on Trial: Case Studies of Change in Faculty Appointment Policies
1st Edition
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....
The Transformation of the Student Career: University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
1st Edition
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....
Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador
1st Edition
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 ...
Science and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe: The Reform of Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By A.D. Tillett, Anthony Tillet, Barry Lesser, Barry Lesser
September 02, 2016
The political upheavals in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe have produced profound social, educational, and economic changes. Once a centerpiece of the communist state, the study of science and technology in the university has now fallen victim to ...
Black Student Politics: Higher Education and Apartheid from SASO to SANSCO, 1968-1990
1st Edition
By Saleem Badat
August 26, 2016
Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national higher education student political organizations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organization (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It ...
Dimensions of the Community College: International, Intercultural, and Multicultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Norma Tarrow, Rosalind Latiner Raby
August 26, 2016
Providing critical as well as pragmatic analysis, this volume examines the education programs that form an integral part of U. S. community colleges and their models abroad. The book's 15 original essays examine a variety of international and inter/multicultural education programs at selected ...
Resilient Spirits: Disadvantaged Students Making it at an Elite University
1st Edition
By Latty Lee Goodwin
August 17, 2016
This study explores the identity construction of socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students who enter an elite university. This critical ethnography gathered qualitative data about the twenty-three participants through non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and focus ...
University Teaching: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By James J.F. Forest
August 12, 2016
University and college teaching is an important topic in the study of higher education around the world. This collection of original essays provides a broad perspective on the issue by examining preparation, assessment, and reward from cross-cultural perspectives, and exploring the cultural and ...
Federalism and the Lander Autonomy: The Higher Education Policy Network in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1948-1998
1st Edition
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....