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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Volume 35

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Laura W. Perna

    1. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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  • 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 35)

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Table of contents (12 entries)

  1. A First-Generation Scholar’s Camino de Conocimiento

    • Laura Ignacia Rendón

  2. A Primer for Interpreting and Designing Difference-in-Differences Studies in Higher Education Research

    • Fernando Furquim, Daniel Corral, Nicholas Hillman

  3. An Interdisciplinary Return to Queer and Trans* Studies in Higher Education

    • Antonio Duran, Reginald A. Blockett, Z Nicolazzo

  4. Evaluation and Decision Making in Higher Education

    • Julie Posselt, Theresa E. Hernandez, Cynthia D. Villarreal, Aireale J. Rodgers, Lauren N. Irwin

  5. Institutional Barriers, Strategies, and Benefits to Increasing the Representation of Women and Men of Color in the Professoriate

    • Kimberly A. Griffin

  6. Learning to Change and Changing to Learn

    • Aimee La Pointe Terosky, Katie Conway

  7. Privatization as the New Normal in Higher Education

    • Kevin R. McClure, Sondra N. Barringer, Joshua Travis Brown

  8. Reimagining the Study of Campus Sexual Assault

    • Jessica C. Harris, Krystle P. Cobian, Nadeeka Karunaratne

  9. The Ambivalence About Distance Learning in Higher Education

    • Di Xu, Ying Xu

  10. The History of Religion in American Higher Education

    • Andrea L. Turpin

  11. Toward a More Critical Understanding of the Experiences of Division I College Athletes

    • Eddie Comeaux

  12. Trends and Perspectives on Finance Equity and the Promise of Community Colleges

    • Alicia C. Dowd, Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Marlon Fernandez Castro
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Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each annual volume contains chapters that discuss salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries on topics pertaining to college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world. 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Laura W. Perna

About the editor

Laura W. Perna is James S. Riepe Professor and Executive Director of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Her research uses varied methodological approaches to identify how social structures, educational practices, and public policies promote and limit college access and success, particularly for groups that continue to be underrepresented in higher education. Her research has been published in books and monographs, as well as articles in such journals as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Policy, Educational Researcher, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, and Teachers College Record. She has served on the editorial boards of leading journals in the field, as well 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 Fellow of the American Education Research Association, and recipient of Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, Early Career Achievement Award from ASHE, Excellence in Public Policy in Higher Education Award from ASHE’s Council on Public Policy and Higher Education, the Dr. Constance Clayton Education Award from the Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable, and the Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. In 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Education.

 

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