What should be the role of college and university libraries in the search for educational excellence in the information age? In this book, a university president and a library director take a close, critical look at new roles for academic libraries as resources for information literacy. This book provides a visionary blueprint for librarians, presidents, and educators concerned with satisfying the growing information needs of American society.

Information Literacy: Revolution In The Library (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gee, E. Gordon

Breivik, Patricia Senn

Social Sciences

Oryx Pr

Law, Policy and Higher Education fills a gap in the market for casebooks on higher education law, as the materials presented lend themselves to timely and important discussions of both law and policy issues. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an overview of higher education with respect to the laws and policies that shape its roles and responsibilities in society Chapters 3 and 4 examine the college's employment relationship with faculty and staff Chapters 5, 6, and 7 explore the rights and responsibilities of students Chapter 8 addresses how the university affects and is affected by the intercollegiate athletic enterprise Chapters 9, 10, and 11 present the influence and impact of government regulations as well as higher education's efforts to shape policies that further institutional aims, and manage university resources Chapter 12 addresses issues of intellectual property, especially involving faculty, but with an eye on public/private partnerships, ownership, and commercialization of research Chapter 13 presents an expose of persons with special needs, a largely overlooked and underserved population within the university

Law, Policy, and Higher Education

Daniel, Philip

Sun, Jeffrey

Pauken, Patrick

Specialties

Carolina Academic Press

Reference

Land-grant colleges and universities have a storied past. This book looks at their future.
Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as Cornell, Maryland, Michigan State, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Texas A&amp;M, West Virginia University, Wisconsin, and the University of California―in other words, four dozen of the largest and best public universities in America. Add to this a number of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges―in all, almost 300 institutions. Their mission is a democratic and pragmatic one: to bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the American people.
In this book, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee discuss present challenges to and future opportunities for these institutions. Drawing on interviews with 27 college presidents and chancellors, Gavazzi and Gee explore the strengths and weaknesses of land-grant universities while examining the changing threats they face. Arguing that the land-grant university of the twenty-first century is responsible to a wide range of constituencies, the authors also pay specific attention to the ways these universities meet the needs of the communities they serve. Ultimately, the book suggests that leaders and supporters should become more fiercely land-grant in their orientation; that is, they should work to more vigorously uphold their community-focused missions through teaching, research, and service-oriented activities.
Combining extensive research with Gee’s own decades of leadership experience, Land-Grant Universities for the Future argues that these schools are the engine of higher education in America―and perhaps democracy’s best hope. This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.

Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good

Education & Teaching

Gavazzi, Stephen M.

Higher & Continuing Education

Johns Hopkins University Press

Exploring the current state of relationships between public universities, government leaders, and the citizens who elect them, this book offers insight into how to repair the growing rift between higher education and its public. Higher education gets a bad rap these days. The public perception is that there is a growing rift between public universities and the elected officials who support them. In What's Public about Public Higher Ed?, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee explore the reality of that supposed divide, offering qualitative and quantitative evidence of why it's happened and what can be done about it. Critical problems, Gavazzi and Gee argue, have arisen because higher education leaders often assumed that what was good for universities was good for the public at large. For example, many public institutions have placed more emphasis on research at the expense of teaching, learning, and outreach. This university-centric viewpoint has contributed significantly to the disconnect between our nation's public universities and the representatives of the people they are supposed to be serving. But this gulf can only be bridged, the authors insist, if people at the universities take the time to really listen to what the citizens of their states are asking of them. Gavazzi and Gee draw on never-before-gathered survey data on public sentiment regarding higher education. Collected from citizens residing in the four most populous states--California, Florida, New York, and Texas--plus Ohio and West Virginia, the authors' home states, this data reflects critical issues, including how universities spend taxpayer money, the pursuit of national rankings, student financial aid, and the interplay of international activities versus efforts to create "closer to home" impact. An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? also places special emphasis on the events of 2020--including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century--as major inflection points for understanding the implications of the survey's findings.

What's Public about Public Higher Ed?: Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion

This book examines topics within the intersection of law, policy, and higher education. These topics include governance and authority, premises liability, campus health and safety concerns, student free speech rights, religion and campus policies, student conduct and due process, academic freedom and expressions pursuant to official duties, intercollegiate athletics and rights of players, students struggling with mental health, employee discrimination claims, and intellectual property and commercialization efforts. Besides its comprehensive coverage, this book is captivating and accessible. Specifically, this book offers a compilation of cases, commentaries, articles, policy reports, and other materials to analyze and illustrate key doctrinal legal rules, various legal perspectives, and policy debates on the critical issues tackled in higher education law and policy.

Law and Public Education: Cases and Materials

Although primarily a legal work, Law and Public Education also addresses historical, pedagogical, economic, and other social science literature. Coverage of the cases and other materials is more complete than in many other casebooks, as it is important for the student to master the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of meaning that would be missed with too much editing. Three primary themes are addressed: 
<li>The decision-making process and the proper allocation of decision-making power among those who compete for it; </li>
<li>The conflicts involved in a liberal, democratic society seeking to inculcate values in its young; and </li>
<li>The tensions that pervade a nation and an educational system torn between values of national unity, secularism, and universalism on the one hand and the desire to preserve pluralism and enhance sectarian and parochial subgroup cultures on the other. All three branches of government play a significant role in shaping and influencing the enterprise of American public education. The federal government has reformed education policy significantly in the past several decades and much of the decision-making undertaken by local and state school officials continues to be litigated in the courts. This Fifth Edition of Law and Public Education reflects the dynamic impact the law has had on this transformation of authority. The changes have been substantial since the publication of the Fourth Edition and, as a result, much of the current edition represents a rewriting of materials and the introduction of the most recent case law.</li>

This heavily discounted, three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book. 
Although primarily a legal work, Law and Public Education also addresses historical, pedagogical, economic, and other social science literature. Coverage of the cases and other materials is more complete than in many other casebooks, as it is important for the student to master the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of meaning that would be missed with too much editing. Three primary themes are addressed: 
<li>The decision-making process and the proper allocation of decision-making power among those who compete for it; </li>
<li>The conflicts involved in a liberal, democratic society seeking to inculcate values in its young; and </li>
<li>The tensions that pervade a nation and an educational system torn between values of national unity, secularism, and universalism on the one hand and the desire to preserve pluralism and enhance sectarian and parochial subgroup cultures on the other. All three branches of government play a significant role in shaping and influencing the enterprise of American public education. The federal government has reformed education policy significantly in the past several decades and much of the decision-making undertaken by local and state school officials continues to be litigated in the courts. This Fifth Edition of Law and Public Education reflects the dynamic impact the law has had on this transformation of authority. The changes have been substantial since the publication of the Fourth Edition and, as a result, much of the current edition represents a rewriting of materials and the introduction of the most recent case law.</li>

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Information Literacy: Revolution In The Library (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Law, Policy, and Higher Education

Law, Policy, and Higher Education

Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good

What's Public about Public Higher Ed?: Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion

Law, Policy, and Higher Education

Law and Public Education: Cases and Materials

Law and Public Education: Cases and Materials

Law and Public Education: Cases and Materials