Geographic Information Science (GISc&T) has been at the forefront of education innovation in geography and allied sciences for two decades.[...]

Colleges and universities are under pressure from the government, students, and parents to make higher education more efficient and cost-effective. Based on Southern New Hampshire University's highly successful competency-based three-year bachelors degree program--the longest running in the country-[...]

Practical advice for the most common complaint in academic departments-- collegiality. It provides the reader with current ideas of what has worked to enhance the climate, culture, and collegiality in the department, as well as the university.[...]

An empowering book for dyslexic adults and professionals who support them, this book provides an overview of current research and practice on dyslexia in higher education and the workplace. Providing practical guidance and support strategies, the text outlines processes to alleviate emotional proble[...]

"What is the value of a college degree?
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The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, [...]

Higher Education in America is a landmark work - a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informe[...]

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be "world-class," institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions of cultivati[...]

This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shap[...]

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and techn[...]