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.... The three edited collections reviewed here address globalization of higher education in Australia, writing instruction in higher education in the United Kingdom, and interdisciplinary collaboration in U.S. higher education. The three bring different perspectives to current U.S. discussions...

...Deborah Mutnick This article tells the story of the Long Island University lockout, analyzes its implications for struggles against the corporatization of higher education, and contributes to the discussion of resilience as a tool for collective organizing. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press...

... that occurs in and out of classrooms on college campuses. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited Alstete W. Jeffrey . 1995 . Benchmarking in Higher Education: Adapting Best Practices to Improve Quality. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 5 . Washington, DC : George Washington...

... Turn in Higher Education On Teaching, Assessing, Valuing Multiliteracies Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres. Edited by Tracey Bowen and Carl Whithaus. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. Lauri Bohanan Goodling Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres aims...

...Jennifer L. Holberg; Marcy Taylor Editors’ Introduction: Commitment in Higher Education’s “New Environment” Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor com∙mit (ke-mit v.t., -mit∙ted, -mit∙ting. 1. to perform or perpetrate, as a crime. 2. to pledge (oneself), as to a position on an issue...

...Patrick Sullivan The Truman Commission created the modern community college in 1947 to democratize our system of higher education in America. Before this moment, higher education was thoroughly segregated by race, class, and gender. The modern open-admissions two-year college cannot, therefore...

... in higher education are an inexorable fact of involuntary market forces. In closing, the authors encourage readers to transform higher education through collective action. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Works Cited Benjamin Walter . 2003 . “ On the Concept of History .” In 1938-1940...

... for teaching faculty may “enact an argument about the separation of teaching and research” that should be resisted, and healthy models of the academic workplace should make sure that teaching and research remain meaningfully responsive to one another. Recent developments in higher education, which promise...

...' Introduction: Commitment in Higher Education's `New Environment.'” Pedagogy 7 : 151 -55. Huot, Brian. 2002 . (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning . Logan: Utah State University Press. ———. 2007 . “Consistently Inconsistent.” College English 69 : 512 -25. McKeachie...

...Kristen McDermott While there is ample evidence that students in higher education benefit from an instructor’s judicious use of humor in lectures and teaching materials, there is less analysis available about the benefits to student critical thinking and communication of making a formal study...

... that literature is uniquely situated to teach the skills colleges most want students to acquire in their general education curricula, in turn providing a crucial method for responding to the “crisis” of the humanities in higher education today. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 literature...

... and composition, the humanities and the academy writ large. The crucial moment demanded not only that we consider the merits of a variety of curricular ideals but also that we question the assumptions driving higher education in the United States. In Symposium: Revisiting the Work of Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch...

...Jeffry C. Davis In Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (1990), Ernest L. Boyer challenged the prevailing belief that the most significant work of higher education involved research and publication. Calling for new categories of scholarship—including the activities of discovery...

..., outside of higher education. Graduate programs must find ways to stress these transferable skills and do better at preparing students for nonprofessorial jobs within and outside academia—including taking new approaches to the dissertation requirement. Humanists who take refuge in the seemingly high-minded...

...Griffin Xander Zimmerman Abstract While ungrading is gaining traction within higher education, many teachers still struggle with applying ungrading systems successfully in their classrooms. This article is designed to bridge the gap between an ideological commitment to ungrading and pedagogical...

...Joyce Olewski Inman This article begins with the suggestion that institutions of higher education often deem the basic writing classroom a closeted space and that this framing of the classroom influences how basic writers experience their classrooms and writing experiences. The author explores...

...Dashielle Horn Though enrollment of learning-disability (LD) students is on the rise in higher education, instructors are often underprepared to effectively support them. The composition pedagogy community needs more discussion of strategies to help LD students in the writing classroom. Scholarship...

... in our disciplines that we had not explored—one that is reflected in our fields’ recent outcomes statements: the 2011 Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing and 2016 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education . In this article, we briefly describe our course and use it as a touch...

...Amber Pouliot This article considers the all too common experience of precarious employment in higher education, but under a unique set of circumstances: a three-year postdoctoral fellowship and residency in a stately home in the English countryside. The author explains how she harnesses...

...Gena E. Chandler; Jennifer Sano-Franchini While the term neoliberalism is commonly used to explain libertarian and conservative economic perspectives, its rapidly expanding contexts influence every aspect of our cultural environment, even the contexts of higher education. This article explores how...