Higher Education Reading List

Georgia State University

J. Victor Baldridge.  Power and Conflict in the University: Research in the
Sociology of Complex Organizations.  New York: Wiley.  1971.

Mary Field Belenky.  Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self,
Voice and Mind.  New York: Basic Books.  1986.

Estela Mara Bensimon and Anna Neumann.  Redesigning Collegiate Leadership:
Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press.  1993.

Burton J. Bledstein.  The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and
the Development of Higher Education in America.  New York: W.W. Norton &
Company.  1978.

Allan Bloom.  The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has
Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.  New York:
Simon and Schuster. 1987.

Howard R. Bowen.  Investment in Learning: The Individual and Social
Value of American Higher Education.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
1977.

Howard R. Bowen. The Costs of Higher Education: How Much do Colleges and
Universities Spend per Student and How Much Should They Spend?  San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.  1980.

Howard R. Bowen and Jack H. Schuster. American Professors: A National
Resource Imperiled. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986.

Ernest Boyer.  College: The Undergraduate Experience in America.  Princeton:
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  1987.

Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel. The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and
the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985. New York:
Oxford University Press.  1989.

Theodore Caplow.  Managing an Organization.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston.  1983.  Second Edition.

Arthur M. Cohen and Florence Brawer.  The American Community College.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1989. Second Edition.

Michael D. Cohen and James G. March.  Leadership and Ambiguity: The
American College President.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business
School Press.  1986. Second Edition.

Diana Crane. Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific
Communities.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.  1972.

K. Patricia Cross. Adults as Learners: Increasing Participation and
Facilitating Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1981.

Digest of Educational Statistics. Washington, D.C.: United States
Government Printing Office.  Most Recent Year.

Kenneth E. Eble. The Craft of Teaching: A Guide to Mastering the Professor's
Art. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1977.

Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1963.

Christie Anne Farnham. The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education
and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South. New York: New York
University Press.  1994.

Jacqueline Fleming. Blacks in College: A Comparative Study of Students'
Success in Black and in White Institutions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Publishers. 1984.

Richard Freeman. The Overeducated American. New York: Academic Press. 1976.

Carol Gilligan. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's
Development. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1982.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York:
Oxford University Press.  1992.

Lynn D. Gordon. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1990.

Carol Gruber. Mars and Minerva: World War I and the Uses of the Higher
Learning in America. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University
Press. 1975.

Charles Homer Haskins. The Rise of Universities. Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press. 1923.

Richard Hofstadter.  Academic Freedom in the Age of the College. New York:
Columbia University Press.  1961 paperback edition.

bell hooks. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South
End Press. 1989.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. Campus Life: Undergraduate Culture from the End
of the Eighteenth Century to the Present.  Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press. 1987.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault. In My Place.  New York: Farra, Strauss & Giroux.
1992.

Robert Maynard Hutchins. The Higher Learning in America. New Haven,
Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1936.

Christopher Jencks and David Riesman. The Academic Revolution. New York:
Anchors Books. 1969.

Louis Joughin. Academic Freedom and Tenure: A Handbook of the American
Association of University Professors. Madison, Wisconsin: The University
of Wisconsin Press. 1967.

Frank R. Kemerer and J. Victor Baldridge. Unions on Campus. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1975.

Clark Kerr.  The Uses of the University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press. 1963.

Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press. 1970.

Larry L. Leslie and Paul T. Brinkman. The Economic Value of Higher
Education. New York: American Council on Education, Macmillan Publishing
Company. 1988.

David O. Levine. The American College and the Culture of Aspiration,
1915-1940. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1986.

Seymour Martin Lipset. Rebellion in the University. Boston: Little, Brown,
& Company. 1971.

Steven Lukes. Power: A Radical View.  London: Macmillan Company. 1974.

Alison Lurie. The War Between the Tates. New York: Random House Books.
1974.

William W. May. Ethics and Higher Education. New York: American Council on
Education, Macmillan Publishing Company. 1990.

Walter P. Metzger. Academic Freedom in the Age of the University. New
York: Columbia University Press. 1961 paperback edition.

Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini. How College Affects Students:
Findings and Insights from Twenty Years of Research. San-Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1991.

Robert Plunkett. My Search for Warren Harding. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc. 1983.

Priorities for Action: Final Report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1973.

Frederick Rudolph.  The American College and University: A History.  New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  1962.

Ellen Schrecker. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. New
York: Oxford University Press. 1986.

Sheila Slaughter.  The Higher Learning and High Technology: Dynamics of
Higher Education Policy Formation. Albany: State University of New York
Press.  1990.

William G. Tierney. Culture and Ideology in Education: Advancing a Critical
Agenda.  New York: Praeger Publishers.  1991.

Wayne J. Urban. Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond 1904-1972. Athens, Georgia:
University of Georgia Press. 1992.

Thorstein Veblen. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the
Conduct of Universities by Business Men. W.B. Huesch and Company. 1918.

Laurence R. Veysey. The Emergence of the American University. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press. 1965.

Charles V. Willie and Ronald R. Edmonds. Black Colleges in America:
Challenge, Development, Survival. New York: Teachers College Press. 1978.




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