Resources for Teaching in Higher Education

A Faculty Guide for Succeeding in Academe

By Darla Twale

All too often a culture of silence permeates academia, where faculty and administrators ignore or misunderstand difficult situations. A Faculty Guide for Succeeding in Academe is a practical guide for prospective and current faculty that addresses real, complex issues that are too often left...

To Be Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge

Engaging Diverse College Alumni

The Essential Guide to Fundraising

By Marybeth Gasman, Nelson Bowman III

Changing demographics are having a substantial impact on college and university student populations. In order to continue garnering funds and supporting their higher education institutions, development offices and individual fundraisers need to learn more about alumni of color. To help move...

Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge

Improving the Student Experience

A practical guide for universities and colleges

Edited by Michelle Morgan

The landscape of higher education (HE) has dramatically altered in the past 30 years and it continues to evolve and change. More students are entering HE and attending university or college on a global scale than ever before. Supporting and enhancing the undergraduate student experience across the...

Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge

Embracing Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Changing Campuses for the New Faculty Majority

Edited by Adrianna Kezar

The nature of the higher education faculty workforce is radically and fundamentally changing from primarily full-time tenured faculty to non-tenure track faculty. This new faculty majority faces common challenges, including short-term contracts, limited support on campus, and lack of a professional...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries

Edited by Patti McGill Peterson

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the...

Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge

Workplace Bullying in Higher Education

Edited by Jaime Lester

Higher education leaders, managers, human resource professionals, faculty, and staff increasingly face uncivil, bullying behaviors in academe. This can manifest itself as constant public humiliation by a new department chair, exclusion of a contingent faculty member, undermining of work performance...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education

Renewing the role of the university professor

By Bruce Macfarlane

Series: Research into Higher Education

What is ‘intellectual leadership’ and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to the prevailing...

Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge

Developing Effective Part-time Teachers in Higher Education

New Approaches to Professional Development

Edited by Fran Beaton, Amanda Gilbert

Series: SEDA Series

Part-time teachers have become an increasing part of the workforce in universities throughout the world. They work in a sector undergoing enormous change and debate about the purposes of the university for individuals, societies and economies. As part-time employees, however, they are not...

Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

Evaluating Teaching and Learning

A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching

By David Kember, Paul Ginns

Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable...

Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

Higher Education for Sustainability

Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum

Edited by Lucas F. Johnston

Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as interdisciplinary...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Paying the Professoriate

A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

Edited by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco

How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Faculty Diversity

Removing the Barriers, 2nd Edition

By JoAnn Moody

Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This book explores this important question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity. Drawing on her extensive consultant practice and expertise as well as research and...

Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge

A Guide to Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

An All Campus Approach

By Marybeth Gasman, Nelson Bowman III

A Guide to Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is a comprehensive, research-based work that brings the best practices and expertise of seminal professionals to the larger Black college environment and beyond. Drawing on data-driven advice from interviews with successful...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Unlikely Allies in the Academy

Women of Color and White Women in Conversation

Edited by Karen L. Dace

Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative to expose their stories, which are at times messy and always candid. However, the contributors work through the...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge