The Founding of the American Association of University Professors
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of Americas faculty.University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organizations initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUPs subsequent response to World War I ......
From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence
This book brings necessary clarity to contentious debates about the state and future of the university by reconstructing the institution's history around the theme of crisis. It challenges administrators, faculty, students, and policy makers to enact rehabilitation of this essential social institution.
Accounting and Budgeting Principles for Higher Education
As a business, the university must account for the money it receives and spends according to standardized bookkeeping and financial reporting methods. But members of the academic community may not be familiar with standard financial procedures, while accountants may be unaware of the unique financial attributes of colleges and universities. To ......
Scientists agree that we are on the precipice of a global climate crisis. How will it transform colleges and universities? In 2019, intense fires in the San Francisco Bay Area closed universities and drove afflicted people to shelter at other campuses. At the same time, extraordinary fires ravaged eastern Australia. Several universities ......
New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education -- and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges ......
New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education -- and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges ......
Interdisciplinarity - or the interrelationships among distinct fields, disciplines, or branches of knowledge in pursuit of new answers to pressing problems - is one of the most contested topics in higher education today. Some see it as a way to break down the silos of academic departments and foster creative interchange, while others view it ......
Today's seminary and religious-education instructors are expected to design and redesign their courses more nimbly than in the past. This book introduces you to UbD: an approach to course design that is proven time-efficient and grounded in the instructor's most closely-held convictions about her subject matter's big ideas and essential questions.
