Newsroom

Covid-19 is having a devastating effect on the US population. It has been estimated that the virus has affected 8.7% of the population. It is headline news on every media outlet. Sexual assaults affect an estimated 20% of the female population on college...

Addressing the complex challenges facing the world requires the scientific and technical expertise of many people whose diverse talents can make a difference. Universities and colleges contribute to that work through research, teaching, and public engagement...

The third edition of Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work was already in press prior to the pandemic and, subsequently, the assault on the Capitol. While the book presaged these events, its core message remains relevant. The pandemic has...

In our new book, The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, we make a case for student-centered, career-diverse, public-facing graduate school. But we also acknowledge the challenge of change, a challenge graduate education has not met for decades...

Why did you write Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity? I wrote this book to map neoliberalism in action and to expose the opaque market practices of contemporary higher education institutions that are compounding inequality for Black women...

Why did you write Runaway College Costs: How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students? Who has not heard complaints about the skyrocketing cost of attending college? Between Fall 2006 and Fall 2020, the growth in the cost of attending a four...

I first became interested in the history of efforts to evaluate teaching and learning while co-chairing Wheaton College’s assessment committee. I learned that skeptical colleagues sometimes perceived evaluation to be an outgrowth of a campaign to disempower...

“We wrote this book to open up a conversation about how colleges and universities might evolve their institutions to better align teaching practices with the emerging science of learning.” That sentence is from our recently published book, Learning Innovation...

Why did you decide to write How University Budgets Work​? I just finished writing a rigorous book on university finances that featured just one chapter on budgets. I welcomed the opportunity to expand this coverage in a book solely about university budgets...

So we are sitting on the airport tarmac in Elko, Nevada getting ready for our next visit to Saint George, Utah, then up to Redding, California, and finally over to Ashland, Wisconsin. What these several placebound locations have in common is that they are...