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The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education
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Niemi, Nancy S., Ed.; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
With this enlightening handbook, you can review the thinking of leading researchers on the current intersection of gender and higher education. "The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education" provides an in-depth look at education's complicated relationships with, and in some cases inadequate fostering of, gender equity. The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Higher Education, STEM Education
Building a Two-Way Street: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Engagement at Research Universities
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Weerts, David J.; Sandman, Lorilee R. – Review of Higher Education, 2008
Recent reforms in the Carnegie Foundation classification system and regional accreditation standards have fueled momentum for community engagement in higher education. This study employs a knowledge-flow conceptual framework to identify barriers and facilitators that influence the adoption of an engagement agenda at land-grant and urban research…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Classification, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education
Inside Feminist Classrooms: An Ethnographic Approach.
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Maher, Frances; Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Feminist teaching practices, by questioning traditional epistemology and distribution of power, offer special advantages in the culturally diverse classroom, where the valuing of different perspectives is essential. A study of two feminist teachers demonstrates how they attempt to create new kinds of classroom cultures through mastery, voice,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
Academic Women: Different Ways of Knowing. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Amey, Marilyn J. – 1992
This paper examines the degree to which women faculty and administrators are able to engage in connected knowing and interdependent definitions of self and reality within an institutional environment that values and rewards individualism, separateness, competition, and objectivity. The paper notes that connected knowing is essentially the process…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis
Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. – 1993
This volume explores the role and implications of collaborative learning for the mission and future of higher education and college teaching. Part I discusses the implications of nonfoundational social constructionist thought for colleges and universities. Nonfoundational notions of knowledge and social relations argue that knowledge has no…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Science
Black Women in the Academy. Promises and Perils.
Benjamin, Lois, Ed. – 1997
This book includes 30 essays by black women college administrators and faculty. The essays explore the thematic issues of identity, power, and change and examining the impact of racism and sexism in institutions of higher education. Essay authors come from both historically black and predominantly white institutions, public and private…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrators, Black Achievement, Black Education