Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education

All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone, Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then theres Walt Whitman, in 18...

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new li...

Traces the University of Rochester's development from a small college housed in a former hotel in 1850 to its place as a leading research universit...

The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasuresnow with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious ...

In addition to possessing the world's largest economies, China and the United States have extensive higher education systems comparable in size. By...

How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, a...

How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, a...

Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change. The study of German-...

Exploring Leadership For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Student Workbook This companion to the third edition of Exploring Leadersh...

The quality of teaching in higher education has been debated for years, and private universities have found it increasingly difficult to provide ad...

If higher education is to fulfill its vital social mission, new department leaders must be prepared for their positions and get up to speed on the ...

A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education.Americas research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entre...

How can universities shape creative, adaptive, integrated learners ready to confront the world? This book's clear-eyed optimism is a challenge to e...

Out of the crises of American higher education emerges a new class of large-scale public universities designed to accelerate social change through ...

Nursing Education provides a strategic guide and practical focus to curriculum planning and development. It will help all those involved in the pr...

Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall ...

From Harvard University, one of the world''s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays sampling topics at the for...

For many college students, studying the hard sciences seems out of the question. Students and professors alike collude in the prejudice that physic...

John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines...

Keep students engaged and actively learning with focused, relevant discussion Second only to lecture as the most widely used instructional strateg...