The Happiest Kid on Campus: Everything a Parent Needs to Know to Help You and Your Child Have an Amazing College Experience, by Harlan Cohen (Sourcebooks; 600 pages; $14.99).
An advice book for parents of first-year students that reflects how the links between home and student have changed with e-mail, texting, Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of constantly available electronic communication.
Leading the Campaign: Advancing Colleges and Universities, by Michael J. Worth (American Council on Education/Rowman & Littlefield; 183 pages; $44.95).
Focuses on college and university presidents in an analysis of the leadership skills and strategic decision-making needed in fund-raising campaigns.
Questioning the Premedical Paradigm: Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century After the Flexner Report, by Donald A. Barr (Johns Hopkins University Press; 226 pages; $50).
Combines a critical history of prevailing approaches in American premedical education with suggestions for revamping the curriculum in ways that will encourage greater educational and social diversity. Argues for integrating the life sciences in a "problem-based, collaborative learning pedagogy."
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, by Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen (Harvard Business Press; 378 pages; $39.95).
An empirical analysis of trends that are shaping business education. Identifies eight areas in which business schools are failing to meet business needs and offers data from extensive interviews with deans and executives, a composite portrait of curricula in 11 leading MBA programs, and case studies of Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Insead, and three other schools.
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