Accreditation on the Edge: Challenging Quality Assurance in Higher Education, edited by Susan D. Phillips and Kevin Kinser (Johns Hopkins University Press; 283 pages; $44.95 hardcover and e-book). An exploration of what should be done about accreditation from the viewpoints of accreditors, institutions, policymakers, and consumers.
The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education: Big Data, Organizational Learning, and Student Success, edited by Jonathan S. Gagliardi, Amelia Parnell, and Julia Carpenter-Hubin (Stylus Publishing; 252 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Contributors discuss how the growing use of data analytics on campuses to allocate resources and provide evidence of outcomes brings with it a responsibility to ensure that data analysis is timely and compelling.
The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise Humanity, by Anthony Seldon with Oladimeji Abidoye (University of Buckingham Press; 353 pages; $20.49 paperback). The vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham describes a future for higher education in which artificial intelligence does the teaching, and continuous assessment precludes the need for exams.
How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy, by Steven M. DeLue (Lexington Books; 276 pages; $105 hardcover, $99.50 e-book). A discussion of how the autonomy of the individual that is fostered by a liberal-arts curriculum can be a safeguard against authoritarianism.
An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence, by Abigail Stewart and Virginia Valian (MIT Press; 491 pages; $29.95 hardcover). Outlines the ways in which colleges follow practices that conceal exclusion; describes how to recruit and retain diverse faculty members and help them succeed.
Living-Learning Communities That Work: A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment, by Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas and others (Stylus Publishing; 180 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). A framework for designing, delivering, and assessing the learning communities that are aimed at improving undergraduates’ education and fostering a sense of belonging.
Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America, edited by Kim Tolley (Johns Hopkins University Press; 219 pages; $34.95 paperback or e-book). A look at how efforts to unionize adjunct instructors have affected both adjuncts and tenured faculty members on campuses and have shaped teaching and learning.
Theory of Constraints: Creative Problem Solving, by Umesh P. Nagarkatte and Nancy Oley (CRC Press; 290 pages; $79.96 hardcover, $89.96 e-book). An explanation of how professionals and students can learn to resolve conflicts and use the “systems thinking” in academe that has become common in business and industry.
The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education, by Warren Treadgold (Encounter Books; 184 pages; $23.99 hardcover or e-book). The author argues that American universities exclude moderate and conservative viewpoints and suggests ways in which teaching and research can be improved and a new university invented.
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