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"Based on subtle, imaginative readings of autobiographies, memoirs, fiction and secondary sources, [Campus Life] tells the story of the changing mentalities of American undergraduates over two centuries."-Michael Moffatt, New York Times Book Review More

In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled ""Campus Sexpot."" Carkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. His memoir is a poignant and hilarious… More

Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel. More

"Explores the architectural and cultural history of Princeton University from 1750 to the present. Includes 150 historical illustrations"--Provided by publisher. More

…Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams College routinely ranks atop the best liberal arts colleges in the United States. The 450-acre campus, master-planned by the esteemed Olmsted Brothers, is home to 2,000 students and 100 academic and residential buildings, some dating back to the… More

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. The author combines research with a wealth of interviews from participants to tell the story of how students turned… More

Despite commitments to free speech and the open exchange of ideas, colleges and universities have ignored recommendations by implementing hate speech codes designed to protect students from harassment. This text analyzes the issue and explores both sides of the debate. More

How can it be that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, our institutions of higher education have still not found ways of reducing the higher education gaps for racial and ethnic groups? More

This book presents the underlying concept of funds of knowledge for race-conscious expertise, and describes its underlying theories; defines the attributes needed to achieve equity-minded practice; demonstrates, through examples of implementation, what different institutions have learned, and what… More

Makes the case that campus speech codes - no matter how well grounded in history, law, or philosophy - have tended to be overbroad, arbitrarily enforced, and used selectively to protect only certain groups at the expense of others. This title challenges academics and general readers to reconsider… More

Indiana University, home to the Hoosiers, is widely known and acknowledged as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States, with the likes of Harvard, Princeton, and other prominent universities. This book deals with this campus. More

Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress. More

This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that have swept higher education in America over the last decade and a half. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs analyzes the origins and development of the problem. More

Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Karen Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students… More

A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investment. More

Gerstmann shows how colleges are often punishing students as sex offenders without a fair hearing and are defining sexual offenses in an unconstitutionally broad manner. This book is for members of the general public and students who want to understand the debate about sexual assault in American… More

A collection of essays on academic freedom in the modern world. It investigates the status of academic freedom in the aftermath of 9/11. More

A collection of essays on academic freedom in the modern world. It investigates the status of academic freedom in the aftermath of 9/11. More

This title is a dictionary of terms contributed and defined by students themselves over a decade - between 1989 and 1999 - with explanatory notes and an introductory essay. It reflects both college students generally and Oberlin College students particularly. More

University of Toronto: The Campus Guide, second edition, portrays the dramatic growth and development of Canada's largest university while it showcases some of the finest architecture and landscapes in eleven curated walking tours. More

Aims to reveal that campus capitalism is more complicated and less profitable than media reports would suggest. This book includes interviews with scientists and administrators. It is useful for those who care about scientific research. It shows that industry dollars are dwarfed by government… More

The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower chronicles how four groups of activists used a variety of tactics and strategies to convince the public that campus crime posed a new danger to the safety and security of college students and the ivory tower itself. More

…countless stories--there's always more to learn about Penn State, no matter how much time you've spent there. This Is Penn State: An Insider's Guide to the University Park Campus will enlighten anyone with an interest in the University, from visiting parents to lifelong State College residents. More

Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. This book explores themes of college life in 680 live-action, theatrically released, feature-length films set in… More

…ensemble of buildings whose stylistic diversity reflects the breadth of Iowa's contributions to research, education, and creative activities. This guide to the university's architecture reveals the artistic integrity, intellectual inspiration, and cutting-edge function of the campus buildings. More

Anecdotes and interviews with other government relations officers illustrate the challenges they face on and off campus. More

The story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche. More

An examination of the expansion of universities from the late 1950s to the early 1970s in Western Europe and North America. It concentrates on the widely-shared belief that good planning and distinguished architecture could bring forth academically mature and socially adjusted students. More

Arguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences. More

Covering nine teams from Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, and junior college, this book focuses on college baseball. It includes chapters that draw on the action of nine weekend series, incorporating interviews of players, coaches, and administrators to cover topics such as recruiting, summer ball,… More

Dendy captures UGA's colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces. These physical features are the university's most visible--and some of its most valuable--resources and are the legacy of generations. More

"This book about diversity offers a fresh perspective and is an important reminder to all that context matters, and what we say and do (our narrative practices) shape and are shaped by it."-Susan Murphy, Cornell University More

The Virginia Tech Massacre take readers on a journey examining the mental health vulnerabilities of youth transitioning to adulthood, the limitations of existing warning tools for violence, and local, regional, and national gaps in mental health service delivery across the United States. More

Alexander Jackson Davis and his role in the University of Michigan's early architectural development More

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In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into a growing number of professions. This title asks the question - are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there. More

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into a growing number of professions. This title asks the question - are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there. More

Catholic colleges and universities have achieved a prestigious place in American higher education, but at the risk of losing their religious identity. This book confronts challenges facing members of the college community, from presidents and trustees through the faculty and deans to professionals,… More

Shows you how Brown versus Board of Education transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after state, across the South. This book details the struggle to change each school in the years that followed the enrollment of the first African American students. It examines an… More

This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s. Norwood contrasts the significant American grassroots protest against Nazism that emerged as soon as Hitler assumed power with campus quiescence. More

First published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul achieved national acclaim, illuminating the as-yet-unexplored struggles of college students navigating the lines of faith and sexuality. Conducting face-to-face interviews at a wide range of colleges and universities-from public to private,… More

This volume presents analyses of a range of gender issues for women in college and approaches to heighten awareness and alleviate problems. Gender dynamics in a variety of settings and contexts are examined, along with issues relating to body image and sexuality. More

This volume presents analyses of a range of gender issues for women in college and approaches to heighten awareness and alleviate problems. Gender dynamics in a variety of settings and contexts are examined, along with issues relating to body image and sexuality. More

A social and design history of the urban campus. More

A social and design history of the urban campus. More

American studies has changed drastically over the years, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This title resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice. More

Arguing against the hypothesis that assumes consumers optimize their consumption intertemporally based on their permanent or lifetime income, this title proposes a rule of thumb according to which consumers can save if their income exceeds basic expenditure, while they can demand credit when income… More

Out There Learning is an edited collection that explores the pedagogical foundations of what it means to learn "out there" - on short-term, off-campus programs and field courses. More

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In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal roles at different junctures. Based primarily… More

…the gun on himself. The media focused their power and our attention on the campus, the students and faculty of Virginia Tech, and the gunman and his victims. But we have yet to understand fully what happened in Blacksburg. There is a Gunman on Campus brings our thoughts back to the shocking campu More

How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus fills a gap in the student services and teaching and learning literature by providing a resource that shows how to construct and carry out difficult conversations from various vantage points in the academy. More

Many foreign born professors teaching on American campuses face culture-based misunderstandings with their students. This book reports on how Japanese male professors handle conflict in college classrooms. It then compares and contrasts the results of the author's studies with female Japanese… More

Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus. More

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of… More

Juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the… More

National Japanese American Student Relocation Council helped more than 4,000 incarcerated students pursue higher education at more than 600 schools during WWII. This book argues that the resettled students transformed the attempts at assimilation to suit their own purposes, and succeeded in… More

In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. This book examines the Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of pervasive… More

Presents comprehensive history of Baptist higher education. This book explores, charts, and analyzes the fullness of the Baptist experience in Christian higher education. Beginning with the establishment in 1756 of the Academy, it also explores the need for Baptists to pursue education and the types… More

Founded in 1948, the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies is located in Kingston, Jamaica. This publication investigates the historical ruins on the campus, which include the wooden barracks of Gibraltar Camp, which housed during World War II Jewish refugees, Gibraltarian evacuees, and… More