Universities

In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid gr...

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationIn the decades after World War II, as government and social support s...

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmo...

A richly illustrated hook by an experienced historian, tracing in 476 pictures and text the story of Princeton life from the beginning to the prese...

In 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school. In Keepin...

Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast netwo...

In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolu...

What way forward for the contemporary university? Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse...

This is a collection of excerpts from the public addresses of Robert F. Goheen during his twelve years as President of Princeton University. The em...

This volume, the third in a series of biographical sketches of students at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), is an account of t...

Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates in depth four American Buddhist univer...

Using affirmative action to decrease racial inequality is the latest chapter of a long tradition of comparing Brazil and the United States with reg...

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic ...

What for decades could only be dreamed of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic...

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification pr...

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored ...

Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who h...