RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
Scientific Communication in African Universities: External Assistance and National Needs
1st Edition
By Damtew Teferra
July 29, 2016
This is one of the few current books on African higher education, and focuses on scientific research and communication on the continent. Included are chapters on scientific journals, secondary avenues of scientific communication, and funding issues. There is also a focus on the challenges and ...
Voices of Conflict: Desegregating South African Universities
1st Edition
By Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
July 29, 2016
The South African higher education system has historically been characterized by racial and gender inequities inherited from the discriminatory policies of the apartheid era. Emerging from a higher education history plagued with deeply entrenched racial disparities, Voices of Conflict examines how...
The Emerging Markets and Higher Education: Development and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Matthew S. McMullen, James E. Mauch, Bob Donnorummo
July 21, 2016
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in emerging market countries. (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, Chile and ...
Resource Allocation in Private Research Universities
1st Edition
By Daniel Rodas
May 10, 2016
This book explores the resource allocation process in contemporary private research universities through six richly detailed case studies. It includes an extensive discussion of historical approaches to university resource allocation. The cases are based on in-depth interviews with university ...
University-Industry Partnerships in MIT, Cambridge, and Tokyo: Storytelling Across Boundaries
1st Edition
By Sachi Hatakenaka
May 04, 2016
The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors that influence that change, and to explore the underlying process of change. Three in-depth case studies are considered, that of MIT, Cambridge ...
Barely There, Powerfully Present: Years of US Policy on International Higher Education
1st Edition
By Nancy L. Ruther
April 27, 2016
Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This book addresses how the U.S. federal government affected the development, institutionalization and diffusion of this change process across the higher education system from 1958 to 1988....
Call to Purpose: Mission-Centered Change at Three Liberal Arts Colleges
1st Edition
By Matthew Hartley
April 27, 2016
A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal....
Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen A. Jones
April 27, 2016
Published in 1997. People wishing to learn the major phases in the development of Canada's twelve postsecondary higher education systems over the 1945-95 period will find this an essential starting point....
The Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College: Jill Ker Conway at Smith, 1975-1985
1st Edition
By David A. Greene
April 27, 2016
This study analyzes how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education....
I Prefer to Teach: An International Comparison of Faculty Preference for Teaching
1st Edition
By James J.F. Forest
August 14, 2015
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....
The Call For Diversity: Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting
1st Edition
By David J. Siegel
June 08, 2015
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 ...
Sexual Harassment and Higher Education: Reflections and New Perspectives
1st Edition
By Billie Wright Dziech, Michael W. Hawkins
May 07, 2015
First Published in 1998. In 1984, Billie Dziech co-wrote The Lecherous Professor, one of the first books to articulate the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. Since that time a number of books exploring the issues, cases, and laws have moved the topic into the public eye. This work...