scholarly journals Book Review: Resilient Universities: Confronting Changes in a Challenging World

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Brockerhoff-Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
North America ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education

This collection of essays, in Resilient Universities: Confronting Changes in a Challenging World, provides a concise and in-depth overview of the current pressures facing institutions of higher education in light of a perceived paradigm shift in North America as well as Europe.

Book Review: Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Kinzie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Educational Value

The influence of John Dewey's philosophy of education - most notably, emphasizing the educational value of experience and service, situating learning in community, and promoting a faith in cultural pluralism - is evident in recent calls for institutions of higher education to strengthen to the larger community and to promote multiculturalism (Gamson, 1997).

scholarly journals Book review: Critical thinking skills for healthcare by Stephanie McKendry.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Lewitt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
North America ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills

Critical thinking is an essential goal of all education, particularly higher education. However it is "a complex and controversial notion that is difficult to define and, consequently, to study" (Abrami et al. 2008). The critical thinking movement that emerged in North America in the 1980s was characterised by debate around how this concept should be defined as well as how it should be taught.

scholarly journals Book Review on Global Demand for Borderless Online Degrees

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Online Degrees ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
International Audience

Dr. Hogan has pinpointed a much-needed discussion about the nature of online degrees. The idea of borderless degrees is interesting and in need of exploration. Currently most degrees are location specific, and international students, while able to access these degrees, often find the curriculum is not designed in a way as to be applicable to an international audience. The book examines the historical roots of higher education and traces the development of institutions of higher education as they have evolved.

Reading work as a diversity practice: A differentiated approach to reading promotion in academic libraries in North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1050-1062
Author(s):  
Keren Dali ◽  
Lindsay McNiff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Reading Promotion

This article positions the practice of working with readers in academic libraries as a diversity practice and examines this practice through the lens of the Diversity by Design concept. We use Diversity by Design to propose and explicate a differentiated approach to reading promotion on campus, drawing attention to the broader and multiple meanings of diversity in the context of reading engagements. We look at the differentiated nature of readerships on campuses as an expression of inherent diversity in North American institutions of higher education and, by extension, academic libraries. We also make specific recommendations on how to give reading practices in academic libraries a boost and a new direction, befitting the diverse and eclectic nature of contemporary North American universities.

Book Review: Improving the Environment for Learning

NASPA Journal ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
First Century ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
New Knowledge

"The challenges facing postsecondary institutions in the twenty-first century include determining the future role of universities in the creation of new knowledge, mastering technology and using it appropriately, and establishing effective planning and monitoring processes (p. 221)." With this quote, Donald emphasizes the growing need for institutions of higher education to engage in self-evaluation and self assessment in order to determing their "raison d' etre" in relationship to learning.

Plantation Politics and Neoliberal Racism in Higher Education: A Framework for Reconstructing Anti-Racist Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (14) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dian Squire ◽  
Bianca C. Williams ◽  
Frank Tuitt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
North America ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ongoing Project

Overcoming the deeply embedded anti-Black racism and colonial heritage of North America is an ongoing project. Scholars have yet to explicate fully the ways that racism and colonialism are foundational to the construction of institutions of higher education. Plantation politics provides the opportunity to reveal parallel organizational and cultural norms between contemporary higher education institutions and slave plantations. To better explore the applicability of this theory, the authors share an example of the parallel between slave plantations and contemporary universities called “The Oxymoronic Social Existence of Whites (or Neoliberalism as the New Slave Code)” and its implications for campus practice toward racial liberation. The authors argue that the institutional logics of colonialism and imperialism— which were essential to the establishment of this country and led to the creation of plantations and the enslavement of Black bodies—exists within higher education institutions today.

The Demand for Doctorally Prepared Public Health Personnel in Institutions of Higher Education

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 298-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Douglas Scutchfield ◽  
Sharon Quimson ◽  
Stephen J. Williams ◽  
Richard Hofstetter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education
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