Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities, by Richard A. DeMillo (MIT Press; 320 pages; $29.95). Discusses ways in which institutions can define their value, cut costs, best use technology, balance "faculty-centrism" and "student-centrism," and otherwise meet today's challenges; focuses on "the Middle" —some 2,000 reputable public and private institutions not among the Ivy League or other elites.
Contested Issues in Student Affairs: Diverse Perspectives and Respectful Dialogue, edited by Peter M. Magolda and Marcia B. Baxter Magolda (Stylus Publishing; 498 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Offers essays and follow-up dialogue on 24 issues, including the student as consumer, whether social networking enhances or impedes student learning, student mental health, and what institutions should do about overly involved parents.
Death Education in the Writing Classroom, by Jeffrey Berman (Baywood Publishing Company; 243 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $48.95 paperback). Documents students' cognitive and affective responses, week by week, in a writing class on love and loss at the State University of New York at Albany.
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership: An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education, by Adrianna J. Kezar and Jaime Lester (Stanford University Press; 351 pages; $60). Discusses the promotion of leadership on campus by faculty and staff at all levels; draws on interviews with 165 such leaders at a community college, a liberal-arts college, a private research university, a public comprehensive college, and a technical college.
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, by Benjamin Ginsberg (Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $29.95). Documents the declining influence of faculty on American campuses and criticizes a trend toward the setting of educational agendas by professional administrators, many of whom lack faculty experience.
Franco-British Academic Partnerships: The Next Chapter, edited by Maurice Fraser and Philippe Lane (Liverpool University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 241 pages; $95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Writings that evaluate the steady increase in joint programs of teaching, training, and research, while acknowledging financial, linguistic, and other challenges.
Impacts of Cultural Capital on Student College Choice Process in China, by Lan Gao (Lexington Books; 214 pages; $65). Applies the cultural-capital theories of Pierre Bourdieu to a study of how class, culture, and financial factors influence college choice in China.
The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies, by Donna Strickland (Southern Illinois University Press; 147 pages; $32). Focuses on how a managerial or administrative imperative has shaped the history of American college and university writing programs, a realm often characterized today by tenure-track administrators and "contingent" faculty.
The Production of Living Knowledge: The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America, by Gigi Roggero, translated by Enda Brophy (Temple University Press; 214 pages; $69.50). Uses a concept of "cognitive capitalism" to examine the factorylike transformation of higher education in an increasingly globalized economy.
Teaching Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies, edited by Bernadette McNary-Zak and Rebecca Todd Peters (Oxford University Press; 193 pages; $55). Essays that draw on the experiences of faculty members who have mentored undergraduate scholars.
