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Metrics That Matter: Counting What's Really Important to College Students
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (21-03-2023)“…High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide where to go to college and what to study once…”
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Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (28-03-2023)“…Scientists agree that we are on the precipice of a global climate crisis. How will it transform colleges and universities? In 2019, intense fires in the San…”
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)“…A college education has long been acknowledged as essential for both personal success and economic growth. But the measurable value of its nonmonetary benefits…”
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Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (25-04-2023)“…Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But…”
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Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (21-02-2023)“…In "Subatomic Writing," Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin goes bravely into uncharted territory by offering a totally new kind of guide for…”
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Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (14-02-2023)“…Beyond having over a quarter of their undergraduate students be Hispanic, what makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can…”
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Reparative Universities: Why Diversity Alone Won't Solve Racism in Higher Ed. Critical University Studies
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (28-03-2023)“…As institutions increasingly reckon with histories entangled with slavery and Indigenous dispossession, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts occupy a…”
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American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges. Fifth Edition
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (31-01-2023)“…Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as…”
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Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Critical University Studies
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (06-12-2022)“…Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments…”
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Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (20-09-2022)“…Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values…”
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Higher Education in Russia
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (13-09-2022)“…By the mid-eighteenth century, when the first university appeared in Russia, many European nations could boast of long and glorious university traditions. But…”
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LGBTQ Leadership in Higher Education
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (02-08-2022)“…Prior to this century, there were few known gay or lesbian presidents in North American higher education. Mary Emma Wooley, president of Mount Holyoke College…”
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Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (31-01-2023)“…As endowments and fundraising campaigns have skyrocketed in recent decades, critics have attacked higher education for steeply increasing its production cost…”
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Learning with Others: Collaboration as a Pathway to College Student Success
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (15-03-2022)“…Most American colleges and universities assimilate students into highly competitive undergraduate experiences. By placing achievement for personal and material…”
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It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (26-04-2022)“…The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in…”
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Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (12-04-2022)“…Since "U.S. News & World Report" first published a college ranking in 1983, the rankings industry has become a self-appointed judge, declaring winners and…”
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Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (01-02-2022)“…Affirmative action in college admission is one of the most contested initiatives in contemporary federal policy, from its beginnings in the 1960s through the…”
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Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (04-01-2022)“…Leadership matters more than ever in this turbulent moment in American higher education. During these unprecedented times, glaring internal inefficiencies,…”
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Challenges to Academic Freedom
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (23-11-2021)“…Academic freedom may be threatened like never before. Yet confusion endures about what professors have a defensible right to say or publish, particularly in…”
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Good Work if You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia
Published in Johns Hopkins University Press (05-05-2020)“…Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all of…”
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