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Hip-Hop Civics

Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

By Jabari M. Evans
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Education, Higher Education, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

How Hip-Hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic education

Expedition Escape from the Classroom

Political Outings on the Campus and the Anxiety of Teaching IR

By Oded Löwenheim
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Education, Higher Education, Memoir
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Breaking out of the classroom to explore how international relations manifest on campus

After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

In Defense of Free Speech in Universities

A Study of Three Jurisdictions

By Amy T.Y. Lai
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Political Communication

Free expression is essential to the pursuit of truth

Becoming a Social Science Researcher

Quest and Context

By Bruce Parrott
Subjects: Writing, Education, Higher Education

The philosophical, sociological, and psychological dimensions of research

Discredited

The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal

By Andy Thomason
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Sports

The Carolina Way and the myth of amateurism

Developing Writers in Higher Education

A Longitudinal Study

By Anne Ruggles Gere
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Composition, Digital Projects, Writing
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A comprehensive study offers new perspectives on college students’ writerly development across their undergraduate years

Negotiating Disability

Disclosure and Higher Education

By Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones
Subjects: Disability Studies, Education, Higher Education, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Thought-provoking essays that explore how disability is named, identified, claimed, and negotiated in higher education settings
 

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

By Eric Adler
Subjects: Classical Studies, Education, Higher Education

Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s

Big Digital Humanities

Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital

By Patrik Svensson
Subjects: Digital Projects, Education, Higher Education
Series: Digital Humanities

An omnibus study of Digital Humanities and the rising opportunities for progress in this evolving field
 

Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By Sidonie Ann Smith
Subjects: Education, Higher Education
Series: Digital Humanities

A noteworthy analysis of current reform opportunities in higher education to improve study in the humanities.
 

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities

Boundary Work in an Emerging Field

By Julie Thompson Klein
Subjects: Digital Projects, Education, Higher Education
Series: Digital Humanities

The first book to test the claim that the emerging field of Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary and also examines the boundary work of establishing and sustaining a new field of study

Pastplay

Teaching and Learning History with Technology

Edited by Kevin Kee
Subjects: History, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education
Series: Digital Humanities

A collection of scholars and teachers of history unpack how computing technologies are transforming the ways that we learn, communicate, and teach.

Powerful Voices

The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella

By Joshua S Duchan
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Education, Higher Education
Series: Tracking Pop

The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella

The Supreme Court and the NCAA

The Case for Less Commercialism and More Due Process in College Sports

By Brian Porto
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics, Sports, Education, Higher Education

Porto identifies the Court’s role in shaping college sports and advances a prescription for reform

Transforming Science and Engineering

Advancing Academic Women

Edited by Abigail J. Stewart & Janet Elizabeth Malley
By Danielle LaVaque-Manty
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Gender Studies

Depicts the many issues women faculty in science and engineering face, and gives solutions that can be widely accepted at academic institutions around the U.S.

The Next Twenty-five Years

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

By David Lee Featherman, Marvin Krislov, and Martin Hall
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Public Policy, American Politics, African American Studies, Law, African Studies

A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in diverse democracies

Dangerous Professors

Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus

Edited by Malini Johar Schueller & Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Education, Higher Education

A provocative essay collection on academic freedom in the modern world

The View from the Helm

Leading the American University during an Era of Change

By James J. Duderstadt
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Business, Business Management and Leadership, Political Science, Public Policy

A lively and informative take on the contemporary state of the university presidency and a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the nation's premiere institutions of higher education

The Knowable and the Unknowable

Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"

By Arkady Plotnitsky
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A welcome intervention in the science vs. humanities debate

Energy Forms

Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics

By Bruce Clarke
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, 19th Century Literature, Education, Higher Education

The interplay of literature and physics that led to acceptance of the theory of relativity

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