All of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can you expect from the college experience, and how can you get the most out of it? This book will answer your questions and help you find real ......
Prepares readers to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse college student population. This is a timely and comprehensive overview of key theories of student development that illustrates their application across a range of student services with diverse student populations.
The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
The college application process - which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and deadlines - can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney, Tracy Fullerton, and their teams at the University of Southern California ......
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 ......
What Community Partners and Members Gain, Lose, and Learn from Campus Co
Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this book is distinguished by its unique emphasis on campus-community partnerships from the perspective of the community. The text addresses the impact of a variety of service-learning arrangements on local communities and focuses on the experiences of the ......
How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters
Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or student who created or discovered it in the course of their research. Increasingly, though, ......
Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating inequality among poor and working-class ......
Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the post-World War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best ......
How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
Higher education expert William F. Massy's decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education's costs are too high, learning ......
