Universities

Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention...

Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American uni...

The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials an...

The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These onli...

Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United Sta...

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interview...

Practicing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between t...

Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term globalizing knowledge is today a popular catchphrase among acade...

Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalis...

Many scholars have endured the struggle against rising anti-Israel sentiments on college and university campuses worldwide. This volume of personal...

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major acto...

Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Ec...

A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly er...

Calling for the transformation of undergraduate education, Thomas and Harney argue that the liberal arts should be integrated into the traditional ...

For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The chal...

This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has had, and will have, on Britains universities. International ...

Since 1976, increased attention has been paid to the diminishing numbers of Black males in higher education, and rightly so: the total numerical en...

There are currently no books on Catholic higher education that offer a theological foundation for academic freedom. This book presents a theologica...

Imagining Time and Space in Universities presents critical theorizations of time and space to analyze discourses and practices of globalization and...

Higher education institutions have increasingly been identified as potentially radicalising locations. The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act ...

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions ...

There are many textbooks on research methods, plenty of books on popular science, and specialist texts on a whole range of academic fields. However...

This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education ...