The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James I. McDougall (Lexington Books; 305 pages; $80). Topics include branding an American university in the Arabian Gulf and transplanting a community-college model to Hong Kong.
Black Men in College: Implications for HBCUs and Beyond, edited by Robert T. Palmer and J. Luke Wood (Routledge; 212 pages; $140 hardcover, $42.95 paperback). Writings on how to support, retain, and graduate black male students; emphasizes variations in the population.
C(H)AOS Theory: Reflections of Chief Academic Officers in Theological Education, edited by Kathleen D. Billman and Bruce C. Birch (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing; 399 pages; $38). Offers leadership advice from more than 30 deans and chief academic officers at theological schools in North America.
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, by Elizabeth Popp Berman (Princeton University Press; 265 pages; $35). Documents the U.S. government’s central role in the heavy commercialization of academic science since the 1980s.
Engineering and Social Justice: In the University and Beyond, edited by Caroline Baillie, Alice L. Pawley, and Donna Riley (Purdue University Press; 209 pages; $35). Considers ways in which academics in the field can acknowledge the social as well as technical impact of engineering through teaching, research, and community engagement.
Exploring More Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, edited by Nancy L. Chick, Aeron Haynie, and Regan A.R. Gurung (Stylus Publishing; 257 pages; $75 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Includes discussion of teaching approaches in interdisciplinary fields, among them women’s and disability studies.
Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, by William Zumeta and others (Harvard Education Press; 255 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include federal policies on student aid, research grants, and regulation that inadvertently encourage responses from states and institutions that raise costs.
Is Graduate School Really for You? The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D, by Amanda I. Seligman (Johns Hopkins University Press; 184 pages; $45 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as the application and qualification process, the culture of grad school, and the delicate questions of work-life balance and employment prospects.
Keeping Faith at Princeton: A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities, by Frederick Houk Borsch (Princeton University Press; 241 pages; $35). Traces Princeton’s religious history since its founding as a college for Presbyterian ministers; draws on the author’s experiences as a student in the 1950s and campus minister in the 1980s.
Making the Case for Leadership: Profiles of Chief Advancement Officers in Higher Education, by Jon Derek Croteau and Zachary A. Smith (Rowman & Littlefield; 230 pages; $45). Examines the careers of 10 of the most successful CAO’s in higher education and outlines the authors’ data- and interview-based Advancement Leadership Competency Model.
Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories, by Hanna Holborn Gray (University of California Press; 122 pages; $39.95). Considers the place of liberal learning in the undergraduate curriculum of universities, and contrasts Clark Kerr’s view of the research-driven “multiversity” with Robert Maynard Hutchins’s traditional liberal educational philosophy.
Taking the Reins: Institutional Transformation in Higher Education, by Peter D. Eckel and Adrianna Kezar (American Council on Education/Rowman and Littlefield; 193 pages; $45). Draws on data from 23 institutions that participated in ACE’s five-year Project on Leadership and Institutional Transformation; focuses on six that experienced the most change.
Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work That Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement, edited by Michael Sweet and Larry K. Michaelsen (Stylus Publishing; 319 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $32.50 paperback). Writings on practical aspects of a small-group approach to learning that can be used in both small and large classes, as well as in online education.