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Free Download University Rankings: Theoretical Basis, Methodology and Impacts on Global Higher Education By Jung Cheol Shin, Robert K. Toutkoushian (auth.), Jung Cheol Shin, Robert K. Toutkoushian, Ulrich Teichler (eds.)
2011 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 9400711158 | PDF | 4 MB
This ground-breaking and exhaustive analysis of university ranking surveys scrutinizes their theoretical bases, methodological issues, societal impact, and policy implications, providing readers with a deep understanding of these controversial comparators. The authors propose that university rankings are misused by policymakers and institutional leaders alike. They assert that these interested parties overlook the highly problematic internal logic of ranking methodologies even as they obsess over the surveys’ assessment of their status. The result is that institutions suffer from short-termism, realigning their resources to maximize their relative rankings. While rankings are widely used in policy and academic discussions, this is the first book to explore the theoretical and methodological issues of ranking itself. It is a welcome contribution to an often highly charged debate. Far from showing how to manipulate the system, this collection of work by key researchers aims to enlighten interested parties."This is the best book going on university rankings. It provides a reliable, readable, wide-ranging guide for the policy maker, university leader, scholar and would be doctoral student who wants to make sense of the mass of ranking data now available. Shin, Toutkoushian and Teichler tell us how to sort the good, the bad and the ugly in university comparison. A strength of the book, one that guarantees its broad relevance, is the inclusion of contributions from each of the world’s major zones of higher education."Simon Marginson, Professor, University of Melbourne "This book offers a comprehensive and very timely analysis of a topic of central importance to contemporary higher education: university rankings. Contributors to the book provide a key to the understanding of the theoretical basis and methodological foundations of rankings and their impact on higher education systems and institutions. Illuminating the amazing popularity of rankings, broad and refreshing reflection on the drivers and consequences of rankings are offered."Jürgen Enders, Professor, University of Twente

Free Download Oxford, the Collegiate University: Conflict, Consensus and Continuity By Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman (auth.)
2011 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 9400700466 | PDF | 2 MB
Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.

Free Download Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "Decolonising the University"
English | ISBN: 1527500039 | 2017 | 481 pages | EPUB | 373 KB

Free Download Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova: Architecture, Art and Science on the Occasion of the 450th Anniversary of His Death by Cosimo Monteleone, Kim Williams
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 225 Pages | ISBN : 3031294823 | 154.5 MB
This book, edited by Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone, follows the publication of two other books dedicated to Daniele Barbaro and published by Springer: Daniele Barbaro’s Vitruvius of 1567 (Kim Williams, 2019) and Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568 (Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone, 2021). Therefore, it can be considered another installment in a series that has deepened the scientific treatises published by Daniele Barbaro.

Free Download University President’s Crisis Handbook: How a Non-Traditional Leader Took His Alma Mater from Insolvency to Sustainable Success by Scott Green, Temple Kinyon
English | December 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1394219954 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 28.27 MB
Discover the non-traditional leadership techniques that took the University of Idaho from insolvency to international renown

Free Download Stephen J. Nelson, "The Shape and Shaping of the College and University in America: A Lively Experiment"
English | ISBN: 1498515568 | 2016 | 340 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book presents the issues, controversies, and key players that formed and enabled the American college and university to endure as a critical institution of the nation and society. Nelson examines contested issues and concerns in the academy such as the role and position of religion; the place and value of the liberal arts; the threat of disunity and balkanization; the ideological contentions and fights for control; the effect of politics and ideologies on its future as an institution; its role as a critic and servant of society; and its promotion of academic freedom, free speech, and liberty. This overview, combined with Nelson’s examination of the historical dramas, influential political forces, and stories of key personalities, provides a nuanced understanding of the evolution of the academy that scholars of Education, American History, and Philosophy will appreciate.

Free Download Mr David Craig, Hugh Openshaw, "The Great University Con: How we broke our universities and betrayed a generation"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1872188141 | EPUB | pages: 318 | 0.7 mb
Thirty years ago, around 770,000 people – just one in six school leavers – attended a British university or polytechnic. Now there are over 2.3 million students in Higher Education – almost half of all school leavers.But has this huge growth in ‘Uni’ really been the great success that politicians and universities would have us believe? After all, what’s the point of having a degree if one in every two people has one and if less than one in ten students on many courses will find a graduate job?THE GREAT UNIVERSITY CON exposes the truth behind the massive expansion of Britain’s university sector – millions of graduates with useless degrees in pointless subjects from third-rate universities with little chance of finding a graduate job but with a lifetime of unrepayable debt.

Free Download Janet Sims-Woods, Charlynn Spencer Pyne PhD, Mr. Howard Dodson, "Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1626196443, 1540211207 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 3.7 mb
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley’s zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist."

Free Download Janet Sims-Woods, Charlynn Spencer Pyne PhD, Mr. Howard Dodson, "Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1626196443, 1540211207 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 3.7 mb
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley’s zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist."

Free Download Diana Dolev, "The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919-1948: Facing the Temple Mount"
English | ISBN: 0739191616 | 2016 | 186 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site became one of the holiest places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world. Once the Dome of the Rock was built during early Islam, the edifice replaced the temple and for centuries pilgrims, travelers, and locals would climb up to the Mount Scopus summit for the magnificent view it afforded. Hence, planning and building an institute of national importance on Mount Scopus could not disregard the implications of that view of the Temple Mount-in terms of beauty, religious sentiments, and the link to a historic golden age.