RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
Scholarship Unbound
1st Edition
By Kerry Ann O'Meara
December 22, 2014
Examining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship....
Acting Otherwise: The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
1st Edition
By Peiying Chen
September 11, 2014
Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities....
Philanthropists in Higher Education: Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving
1st Edition
By Gregory Cascione
December 11, 2013
The main purpose of this book is to explore and understand the motivation behind major donations to higher education and what the role of religion is in these motivations. Features interviews with major donors....
Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture
1st Edition
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....
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
1st Edition
By Carmelita Rosie Castañeda
October 29, 2012
This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms....
Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices: Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study
1st Edition
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....
Democratizing Higher Education Policy: Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By M.T. Sehoole
August 18, 2010
This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in ...
University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika
1st Edition
By Olga Bain
March 28, 2003
This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market ...
Power and Politics in University Governance: Organization and Change at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
1st Edition
By Imanol Ordorika
January 31, 2003
Drawing from a case study of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico , this work analyses the connection between political processes and change in higher education. The author explains that while there are increasing demands these have not produced rapid responses from the university and tries...
Two-Year Colleges for Women and Minorities: Enabling Access to the Baccalaureate
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara K. Townsend
December 24, 2002
Two-year colleges are often the most financially, geographically, and academically accessible means of higher education for ethnic minorities and women. This book examines five types of two-year special focus schools....
The Virtual Delivery and Virtual Organization of Post-secondary Education
1st Edition
By Daniel Carchidi
March 22, 2002
How virtual post-secondary educational organisations (popularly called virtual universities) function is the central subject in this new book based on a comparative study of five U.S based institutions....
Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations: The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley
1st Edition
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 ...