Overview
- Authoritative in the field of higher education
- State-of-the-art reviews on topics important to higher education
- An indispensable resource for higher education administrators, policymakers, and researchers
Part of the book series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (HATR, volume 39)
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Table of contents (12 entries)
Keywords
- Women and Gender in American Higher Education
- Design thinking in community colleges
- governance and equity in higher education
- criminal justice scholarship in higher education
- professional development for teaching and curriculum desig
- Internalized Forms of Whiteness in Higher Education
- Academic freedom
- black higher education
- black women in STEM subjects
- critical race theory in higher education
- College student engagement
- university leadership and indigenous communities
- policy implementation in community college
- OLS regression in higher education research
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Laura W. Perna is Vice Provost for Faculty, GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education, and Founding Executive Director of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Her research uses various methodological approaches to identify how social structures, educational practices, and public policies promote and limit college access and success, particularly for students from groups that are historically underrepresented in higher education. Publications include Improving research-based knowledge of college promise programs (with Edward Smith, 2020, AERA), Taking it to the streets: The role of scholarship in advocacy and advocacy in scholarship (2018, Johns Hopkins University Press), and The Attainment Agenda: State policy leadership for higher education (with Joni Finney, 2014, Johns Hopkins University Press). She has served as President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE),Vice President of the Postsecondary Division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Chair of Penn’s Faculty Senate. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) and previously served as a member of the Gates Commission on the Value of Postsecondary Education and the Board of Directors for the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Among other honors, she received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association, Early Career Achievement Award from ASHE, Excellence in Public Policy in Higher Education Award from ASHE’s Council on Public Policy and Higher Education, Dr. Constance Clayton Education Award from the Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable, and Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. She isalso a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of AERA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Book Subtitle: Volume 39
Editors: Laura W. Perna
Series Title: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38077-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Education
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38076-1Published: 01 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38077-8Published: 31 January 2024
Series ISSN: 0882-4126
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1664
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 742
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, History of Education, History of Education, Education, general