- Academic Freedom in the Wired World
- In this passionately argued overview, a longtime activist-scholar takes readers through the changing landscape of academic freedom. From the aftermath of September 11th to the new frontier of blogging, O'Neil examines the tension between institutional and individual interests. Many cases boil down to a hotly contested question: who has the right to decide what is taught in the classroom?
- Hardcover 2008
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
"Area studies"--a distinctively American way of organizing knowledge about the rest of the world--have been in a state of crisis in recent years, especially since the end of the cold war and the spread of globalization. In no field of inquiry has that crisis been as acute as in Middle Eastern studies. This volume focuses on one of the leading institutions in the field, Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), which was founded fifty years ago to further research and teaching about a region that remains enigmatic to the United States.
The book is divided into three parts: the first presents a critical look at the history of the Center against the backdrop of ongoing debates about Middle Eastern studies and area studies in general; the second examines the multifaceted operations of CMES that serve the scholarly community within and beyond Harvard; and the third consists of a series of essays, mainly by members of the core faculty of the Center, offering diverse assessments of the state of Middle Eastern studies today as well as visions of how Harvard might meet the complex challenges to the field in the years ahead.
- Paperback 2006
- The College Administrator's Survival Guide
- In this book, a widely respected advisor on academic administration and ethics offers tips, insights, and tools for handling complaints, negotiating disagreements, responding to accusations of misconduct, and dealing with difficult personalities. With humor and generosity, C. K. Gunsalus applies scenarios based on real-life cases to guide academic administrators through the dilemmas of management in not-entirely-manageable environments.
- Hardcover 2006
- College Unranked
- In this book, the presidents and admission deans of leading colleges and universities remind readers that college choice and admission are a matter of fit, not of winning a prize, and that many colleges are "good" in different ways. They call for bold changes in admissions policies and application strategies to help both colleges and applicants to more fully appreciate what college is really for.
- Paperback 2005
- Creating a Class
- In real life, Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Early Admissions Game
- with a new chapter
- Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process.
- Paperback 2004
- The Early Admissions Game
- This definitive work--based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 college applications to fourteen elite colleges, and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers--provides an extraordinarily thorough analysis of early admissions. In clear language it reveals the realities of early applications, how they work and what effects they have. The system, the authors argue, is unfair, and they make recommendations for improvement.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Harvard Book, rev. ed
- Hardcover 1969
- Harvard A to Z
- An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University--its undergraduate college and nine professional schools--this volume traverses the gamut of Harvardiana from Aab and Admissions to X Cage and Z Closet.
- Hardcover 2004
- How Professors Think
- Hardcover 2009
- Increasing Faculty Diversity
- In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors.
- Hardcover 2003
- Investing in College
- College education is one of the most important investments a family will make, but the process can be a headache for students and their parents. In a unique approach to this issue, economist and teacher Getz walks readers through the opportunities, risks, and rewards of heading off to college, breaking down confusing admissions and financial options.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Making the Most of College
- What choices can students in America make and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students' experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? Two Harvard University presidents invited Richard Light and his colleagues to explore these and other questions, resulting in ten years of interviews with 1,600 Harvard students. Filled with practical advice, Making the Most of College presents strategies for academic success.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- On Course
- On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when trying to meet one's own demanding research and service requirements.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Program Era
- Hardcover 2009
- Prophets and Patrons
- This is the first detailed account of the emergence of sociology and related social sciences in France. It emphasizes three social and intellectual groupings in the period from 1880 to 1914: the social statisticians who grew out of governmental ministries, the Durkheimians who were consistently housed in the university, and the "international sociologists" around René Worms, in neither ministries nor the university. Unlike most histories of ideas, it portrays the institutional developments that encouraged, discouraged, and rechanneled different styles of research.
- Hardcover 1973
- The Questions of Tenure
- Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how it works? Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions and conclude that no single tenure system exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line
- Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- Tapping the Riches of Science
- American universities are under increasing pressure to maximize their economic contributions. This book offers a rigorous and far-sighted explanation of this controversial and little-understood movement.
- Hardcover 2009
- Teaching American Students
- The third edition of Teaching American Students explains the expectations of undergraduates at American colleges and universities and offers practical strategies for teaching, including how to give clear presentations, how to teach interactively, and how to communicate effectively. Also included are illustrative examples as well as advice from international faculty and teaching assistants. Appendices offer suggestions on topics from planning the first day of class to grading papers and problem sets.
- Paperback 2006
- Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936
- Hardcover 1936 / Paperback
- Tuition Rising
- Hardcover 2000
- Tuition Rising
- America's elite colleges and universities are the best in the world. They are also the most expensive, with tuition rising faster than the rate of inflation over the past thirty years and no indication that this trend will abate. Ronald G. Ehrenberg explores the causes of this tuition inflation, drawing on his many years as a teacher and researcher of the economics of higher education and as a senior administrator at Cornell University.
- Paperback 2002
- The University in Ruins
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Unmaking the Public University
- Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Uses of the University
- Paperback 2001
- What the Best College Teachers Do
- What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. In stories both humorous and touching, Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential.
- Hardcover 2004
- Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952
- Hardcover 1976