The many and varied challenges facing higher education include a culture of publish or perish, increased course loads without more pay or benefits, increased pressure on institutions to compete for students, budget cuts, a political atmosphere targeting higher education, and continued systemic inequities. Those who work in higher ed are under more…

This book is a guide to students on the nature and quality of teaching at colleges and universities. It discusses the need for students to take responsibility for their own learning at the college level and not depend on college professors to "teach" them everything they need to know. The book notes that most professors have had little or no…

This book provides graduate students and tenure-track junior faculty with information on how to develop an adequate publication record and offers information needed to maximize the likelihood of having articles accepted for publication by peer-reviewed professional, scientific, and scholarly journals. The focus of the discussion is on how…