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Organizational Change

The Instruction Myth: Why Higher Education Is Hard to Change, and How to Change It. by John Tagg
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781978804456
Publication Date: 2019
Higher education is broken, and we haven't been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it? The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated, but it will not be an easy process. In fact, it will require universities to abandon their central operating principle, the belief that education revolves around instruction, easily measurable in course syllabi, credits, and enrollments. Acclaimed education scholar John Tagg presents a powerful case that instruction alone is worthless and that universities should instead be centered upon student learning, which is far harder to quantify and standardize. Yet, as he shows, decades of research have indicated how to best promote student learning, but few universities have systematically implemented these suggestions.
Community Colleges As Incubators of Innovation by Rebecca Corbin (Editor); Ron Thomas (Editor); Andy Stoll; J. Noah Brown
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781620368626
Publication Date: 2019
While community colleges have traditionally focused on providing students with opportunities to gain credentials for employment, the increasingly important question is: Are they preparing students for the looming dynamic, disruptive, and entrepreneurial environments ahead? This book addresses the urgent need for community colleges to prioritize entrepreneurship education both to remain relevant in a changing economy and to give graduate students the flexible and interdisciplinary mindsets needed for the future of society. It argues that entrepreneurial education should be offered broadly to a wide range of students, and across all disciplines; defines the key constructs for achieving this objective; and describes how to create entrepreneurial learning environments.
Grading the College by Scott M. Gelber
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781421438177
Publication Date: 2020
In Grading the College, Scott M. Gelber offers a comprehensive history of evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. He complicates the conventional narrative that portrays evaluation as a newfangled assault on the integrity of higher education while acknowledging that there are many compelling reasons to oppose those practices. The evaluation of teaching and learning, Gelber argues, presented genuine dilemmas that have attracted the attention of faculty members and academic leaders since the 1920s. By providing a deeper understanding of how evaluation operated before the dawn of high-stakes accountability, Grading the Colleges eeks to promote productive conversations about current attempts to define and measure the purposes of American higher education.
Rethinking Class Size: the Complex Story of Impact on Teaching and Learning by Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781787358799
Publication Date: 2020
In Rethinking Class Size, the world's leading researchers into class size effects counter the dominant view that class size has no impact on pupil outcomes. Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell reveal the influence of class size on all relationships and interactions in the classroom. They develop a new social pedagogical model of how class size influences work, and identify policy conclusions and implications for teachers and schools. The book is an invaluable contribution to the international debate on class sizes.
Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet by Michelle R. Weise
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781119597483
Publication Date: 2020
Offers readers a fascinating glimpse into a near-future where careers last 100 years, and education lasts a lifetime. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives -- which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the disruptive and burgeoning innovations that are laying the foundation for a new learning model that includes clear navigation, wraparound and funding supports, targeted education, and clear connections to more transparent hiring processes.

Reframing Assessment to Center Equity by Gavin W. Henning (Contribution by); Gianina R. Baker (Contribution by); Natasha A. Jankowski (Contribution by); Anne E. Lundquist (Contribution by); Erick Montenegro (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781642672565
Publication Date: 2022
This book makes the case for assessment of student learning as a vehicle for equity in higher education. The book proceeds through a framework of "why, what, how, and now what."
The Amateur Hour by Jonathan Zimmerman
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781421439099
Publication Date: 2020
Pushing open the classroom door, The Amateur Hour illuminates American college teaching and frames a fresh case for restoring intimate learning communities, especially for America's least privileged students. Anyone who wants to change college teaching will have to start here.
Teacher Educators As Critical Storytellers by David Stovall (Editor); Leslie T. Fenwick (Foreword by); Dawn G. Williams (Afterword by); Antonio L. Ellis (Editor); Nicholas D. Hartlep (Editor); Gloria Ladson-Billings (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780807765142
Publication Date: 2021-03-26
Breaking away from the historically dominant narrative that White females make the best teachers, this book contends that effective teachers can be both "windows" and "mirrors" for students. Teachers should reflect the student population in racial and cultural terms while also serving as windows for students to see opportunities that lie outside of their immediate circumstances.
A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations by Karen Treisman
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781787753129
Publication Date: 2021-04-16
Covering guidance on policies, recruitment, supervision, language, cultural humility, co-production, team meeting ideas, staff wellbeing and more, this is the ultimate treasure trove for getting your organization truly and meaningfully trauma-informed. There are also contributors from all over the world within different contexts, from prisons to social care to schools to residential homes and much more, which illustrate how to take the ideas and apply them into real world practice.
Making Sense of the College Curriculum: Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation by Robert Zemsky; Gregory R. Wegner; Ann J. Duffield
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813595023
Publication Date: 2018
he contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate curriculum is so vexing to colleges and universities. Their stories also belie the public's and policymakers' belief that faculty members care more about their scholarship and research than their students and work far less than most people.