Books in Vanguard

Guidelines | Books on Hand

Guidelines

If you'd like to recommend a book for Vanguard to review, keep in mind the following:

• Books must address a wide audience within higher education, especially on a topic that engages the faculty at large.
• We will review creative works (fiction, poetry, etc.), but the explicit setting of such work must be the university. (Ex: almost anything by David Lodge)
• If you recommend a book, be prepared for me to ask you to do the review!

Books on Hand

• Ryan C. Amacher and Roger E. Meiners. Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education. Oakland: The Independent Institute, 2004.
• Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest, eds. Defending the Community College Equity Agenda. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.
• Conchita Y. Battle and Chontrese M. Doswell, eds. Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Success. Dallas: University Press of America, Inc., 2004.
• Derek Bok. Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. (Assigned 1/8/2007)
• Wiliam G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin. Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.
• Mary Burgan. What Ever Happened to the Faculty? Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.
• Daniel Golden. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. New YorK: Crown, 2006.
• Harold T. Shapiro. A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
• Welch Suggs. A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
• Kathleen A. Welsch, ed. Those Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions!