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Teaching Artist Handbook Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach

Jaffe Nick, Barniskis Becca, Hackett Cox Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226256887, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm

The creation of art is deeply personal yet remains strongly rooted within the collaborative meeting of teacher and student. Over centuries, techniques and encouragement have been passed along from experienced mentors to budding novices. Those who can...

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How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education

Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...

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Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Link Albert N., Siegel Donald S., Wright Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226178349, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to m...

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Fair Access to Higher Education Global Perspectives

Mountford-Zimdars Anna, Sabbagh Daniel, Post David

ISBN: PB: 9780226250922, University of Chicago Press, January 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does "fairness" mean internationally in terms of access to higher education? Increased competition for places in elite universities has prompted a worldwide discussion regarding the fairness of student admission policies. Despite budget cuts fro...

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Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms New Scholarship

Mulrooney Kristin J.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686238, Gallaudet University Press, January 2015
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

A new initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education today by methodically examining and assessing the vital component of classroom interaction. This collection presents research by five professors wh...

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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?" Finding Careers Outside Academia (Third Edition)

Basalla Susan, Debelius Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9780226200408, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student lo...

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Democratic Constitution for Public Education

Hill Paul T., Jochim Ashley E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226200682, ISBN: HB: 9780226200545, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 tables

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...

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Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867397, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who – or what – teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not on...

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Education

Versions of Academic Freedom From Professionalism to Revolution

Fish Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780226064314, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full atten...

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Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Arum Richard, Roksa Josipa

ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables

Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...

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