Table of Contents: “…Educational and diplomatic influences at public research universities / Beverly Lindsay -- Intellectual and diplomatic imprints at liberal arts colleges / Beverly Lindsay -- An early vision of education: applying knowledge to social engagement / Lorenzo DuBois Baber and Beverly Lindsay -- pt. 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- SOURCES OF INSPIRATION -- Stanford and Yale -- Eliot of Harvard -- The Astonishing Joseph Stiglitz -- Repairing a Bicycle -- The Ornament of Our World -- VARIETY AND FREEDOM: WORDS FOR NEW STUDENTS -- Encountering New Perspectives -- Back to School -- Friendship and Individuality -- Preparing for Global Citizenship -- The Questions That Matter -- Variety and Freedom -- Passion and Perseverance -- Seeing the Big Picture -- THE WORTH OF THE UNIVERSITY -- The University in Service to Society -- Why Colleges and Universities Matter -- Universities and Cities -- Harnessing the Wind -- Rethinking College Admissions -- RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: WORDS FOR GRADUATES -- Reviving Public Discourse -- Curiosity, Independence, and Public Service -- Journeys -- Life on a Small Planet -- The Economy and the Human Spirit -- Reclaiming Politics -- Taking Responsibility -- THE UNIVERSITY AS GLOBAL CITIZEN -- The Lesson of 9/11 -- Leading by Example -- Rising to the Challenge of Climate Change -- The American Research University and the Global Agenda -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA -- The Rise of Asia's Universities -- Reform, Innovation, and Economic Growth in Japan -- The Role of Liberal Education in China's Development -- REFLECTIONS ON ECONOMIC ADVANCE AND REFORM -- Confronting China's Challenges -- Patents in Global Perspective -- Lessons from the Crisis of 2008 -- COLOR PLATES.…”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Constructing a comparative theoretical framework -- Globalization and the new landscape for higher education -- The half life of knowledge -- The role of intangibles in the research university -- The frame of demography, diversity, and democracy -- Reciprocal empowerment revisited -- pt. 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…in the Scholarship of Engagement""; ""Toward a Social Justice-Centered Engaged Scholarship""; ""Ernest Boyer and the Scholarship of Engagement""; ""Part 2/ Across the Higher Education Landscape""; ""Across the Higher Education Landscape""; ""Engaged Scholarship in Land-Grant and Research Universities""; ""Engaged Scholarship and the Urban University""…”
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Table of Contents: “…Colleges And Universities -- ITAs as Symbols: Intimations of Enduring Tensions In the Research Universities -- Reactions to International Teaching Assistants -- Public Response -- Legislative Response -- The Academy's Response -- Training Programs for ITAs -- TA Training as a Context for Training ITAs -- Systems Analysis: Designing an Appropriate ITA Program -- ITA Program Designs -- Curricular Components -- Implementation Issues -- Programs for International Faculty -- Assessment Issues in ITA Training -- Assessments of TAs as a Context For ITA Assessment -- ITA Assessment -- ITA Training Models and How They are Used -- Evaluation of Training Programs -- Other Forms of Training Program Assessment -- Summary -- Research Related to ITA Training -- Studies Related to Pronunciation -- Studies Related to Effective Teaching -- Studies Evaluating ITA Training Programs -- Studies Related to Tasks ITAs Perform -- Studies Related to the Concerns of ITAs -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Topics Needing Further Discussion and Research -- Required Administrative Support for Effective ITA Assessment and Training Programs -- The Future of ITA Assessment and Training.…”

Table of Contents: “…Callan -- The economy and higher education / Margaret Gordon -- Federalism in American higher education / Martin Trow -- Research universities in a new era : from the 1980s to the 1990s / Roger L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Mustard, Jessica Van Parys -- Predictors of academic success at a highly selective private research university / Teresa Wonnell, Chloe Melissa Rothstein, John Latting -- Part III: Evaluations of test-optional policies -- Test scores do not equal merit: deemphasizing standardized tests in college admissions / Robert Schaeffer -- Going test-optional: a first year of challenges, surprises, and rewards / Martha Allman -- Diversity outcomes of test-optional policies / Thomas J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Why now is the time for institution-level thinking in STEM higher education -- Transforming undergraduate STEM education: responding to opportunities, needs and pressures -- The reform of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in context : preparing tomorrow's STEM professionals and educating a STEM-savvy public -- Institutional transformation in STEM : insights from change research and the Keck-PKAL project -- The role of cultural change in large-scale STEM reform : the experience of the AAU undergraduate STEM education initiative -- Increasing student success in STEM : an overview for a new guide to systemic institutional change -- Advancing evidence-based teaching in gateway science courses through a mentor-apprentice model -- Developing faculty cultures for evidence-based teaching practices in STEM : a progress report -- From grassroots to institutionalization : RIT's CASTLE -- Towards a model of systemic change in university STEM education -- The science education initiative : an experiment in scaling up educational improvements in a research university -- Planning transformation of STEM education in a research university -- Supporting STEM education : reflections of the central Indiana talent expansion project -- Applying the CACAO change model to promote systemic transformation in STEM -- Review of the undergraduate science curriculum at the University of Queensland -- Key elements to create and sustain educational innovation at a research-intensive university -- Changing practice towards inquiry-oriented learning -- The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program : leveraging faculty research interests to transform undergraduate STEM education -- Transformative initiatives : how iFoundry reimagines STEM education for the 21st century -- Current directions in modern undergraduate engineering education -- How an R-1 university rallies around transforming education : opportunities and challenges -- Departmental redesign : transforming the Chattanooga State Math Program -- Successful model for professional development : creating and sustaining faculty learning communities -- A disciplinary teaching and learning center : applying pedagogical content knowledge to faculty development -- Faculty learning communities : a professional development model that fosters individual, departmental, and institutional impact -- STEM faculty perceptions of concept map assessments -- Teaching to increase diversity and equity in STEM (TIDES) : STEM faculty professional development for self-efficacy -- A social constructivist perspective of teacher knowledge : the PCK of biology faculty at large research institutions -- Culture, policy and resources : barriers reported by faculty implementing course reform -- Clickers in the wild : a campus-wide study of student response systems -- Closing the loop : a model for inter-institutional collaboration through delivering formative assessment in large, first-year STEM classes -- Describing instructional practice and climate : two new instruments -- The roles of data in promoting institutional commitment to undergraduate STEM reform : the AAU STEM initiative experience -- The reformers' tale : determining progress in improving undergraduate STEM education -- Why doesn't knowing change anything? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Hirsch -- Networks and strategic alliances within and between universities and with the private sector / Hans J.A. van Gindel -- The research university's potential as an area's growth and prosperity stimulant / Peter Preuss -- Research and education: new roles, new instruments / Dennis Tschritzis -- Higher learning as a joint venture between state and industry: the example of the international university in Germany / Heide Ziegles -- Governance / Howard Newby -- Information age challenges to research libraries: crisis in the University of California library system / Charles F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Historical Overview, Part 1-From the Beginnings to World War II -- Antecedents in Europe and Colonial America -- The Emergence of the Research University -- Control of Faculty Personnel Decisions-and Issues of Academic Freedom -- World War I and the Interwar Years -- 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Doctoral education as if people matter / Marie-Louise Österlind, Pam Denicolo and Britt-Marie Apelgren -- Alienation and the problem of work in doctoral education / Alistair McCulloch -- Restructuring doctoral education in Sweden / Britt-Marie Apelgren, Sverker Lindblad and Gun-Britt Wärvik -- Challenging policy barriers to doctoral supervision : qualifying as a supervisor and recruiting students in Chinese research universities / Bing Lu -- Doctoral final examinations : (ir)relevance to new skills and future challenges / Pam Denicolo, Dawn Duke and Julie Reeves -- Re-framing supervisor development for internationalisation and professionalization / Pam Denicolo, Julie Reeves, and Dawn Duke -- The professional development of doctoral supervisors through an international lens / Isabel Huet, Diogo Casanova and Fabiane Garcia -- Towards a person-centred discourse in doctoral supervisor development / Matthew Sillence -- The role of supervisors in preparing doctoral researchers for the final examination / Gillian Houston -- New beginnings or same old ending for researcher development? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Local knowledges, local practices : an introduction / Jonathan Monroe -- TAs and the teaching of writing at Cornell : a historical perspective / Katherine Gottschalk -- Writing without friction / Keith Hjortshoj -- Finding places for writing in a research university : a director's view / Harry E. Shaw -- Writing animals / Elizabeth Oltenacu -- Exoticizing the familiar : familiarizing the exotic / Jane Fajans -- "You can make a difference" : human rights as the subject matter for a first-year writing seminar / Billie Jean Isbell -- Writing from (field) experience / Kathryn S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Kibby -- The new literacy agenda for higher education : composition, computers, and academic labor at US research universities / Robert Samuels -- Who is the e-generation and how are they faring in higher education? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Mathematical Representation in Economics and Finance: Empirical Relevance and Philosophical Preference Ping Chen (China Center for Economic Research, University of Texas at Austin) -- 3Behind the price Barucca P -- F. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Life in a Community College; Rob Jenkins3. Life in a Research University; Barry V. Qualls4. Teaching; Garrett A. …”

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Table of Contents: “…: the emerging significance of research universities in the international relations of states / Chris Tremewan -- Resistance in the neo-liberal university / Sandra Grey -- The university as a place of possibilities : scholarship as dissensus / Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner -- Conclusion crisis, critique, and the contemporary university : reinventing the future / Susan L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Dawn of the Current Era, 1980-2000 ; Universities and Economic Relevance : Revival of the Research Mission ; Privatization : Public and Private Higher Education and the Selectivity Sweepstakes ; The Culture Wars ; American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century ; The 1,000,000,000,000 Debt ; Bifurcation Revisited ; Returns to Higher Education ; The Learning Conundrum ; University Culture in a Polarized America ; Research Universities and the Knowledge Society ; American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century.…”
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