Higher Education


Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
A History of American Higher Education
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Educated
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
In Defense of a Liberal Education
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – A Landmark History of Elite College Merit and American Opportunity
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (The William G. Bowen Series)
The Culture Map by Erin MeyerCouples That Work by Jennifer PetriglieriAct Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia IbarraBlue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan KimThe Blue Line Imperative by Kevin Kaiser
Books written by INSEAD Professors
92 books — 6 voters
Becoming by Michelle ObamaThe Black Girl's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds Devotional by Nijiama SmallsWe Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. LoveFor White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'al... by Christopher EmdinThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Blk Womyn Voices Podcast Booklist
20 books — 2 voters

University, Inc by Jennifer WashburnContingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education by Eric Fure-SlocumPlanned Obsolescence by Kathleen  FitzpatrickThe Knowledge Factory by Stanley AronowitzThe Great Mistake by Christopher Newfield
adventures in academia
13 books — 1 voter
Connect for Classroom Success by R. Janet WalravenMake It Stick by Peter C. BrownMindset by Carol S. DweckThe Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerDon't Go Back to School by Kio Stark
Best Books About the State of Education
177 books — 44 voters

Faculty Advising Examined by Gary L. KramerEngaging Students Through Social Media by Reynol JuncoThe New Advisor Guidebook by Pat FolsomGet Real and Get In by Aviva LegattThe Appreciative Advising Revolution by Jennifer L. Bloom
Academic Advising Top Reads
16 books — 4 voters
Fangirl by Rainbow RowellThe Secret History by Donna TarttBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughI Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom WolfeNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Books About College Life
748 books — 271 voters

Michel Houellebecq
Helene's interest in economics had waned considerably over the years. More and more, the theories that tried to explain economic phenomena, to predict their developments, appeared almost equally inconsistent and random. She was more and more tempted to liken them to pure and simple charlatanism; it was even surprising, she occasionally thought, that they gave a Nobel Prize for economics, as if this discipline could boast the same methodological seriousness, the same intellectual rigor, as chemis ...more
Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

Abhijit Naskar
Certificate without humanity is a ticket to stoneage.
Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

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