SELECTED NEW BOOKS
ON HIGHER EDUCATION
College (Un)bound: The Future
of Higher Education and What It
A Complete Guide to Presiden-
tial Search for Universities and
The Future of Scholarly Com-
munication, edited by Deborah
Shorley and Michael Jubb (Facet
Publishing; 188 pages; $95). Writ-
ings on such topics as the changing
role of the publisher and the jour-
nal editor, coping with a data del-
uge, and social media and scholarly
communications.
Generation X Professors
Speak: Voices From Academia,
edited by Elwood Watson (Scare-
crow Press; 215 pages; $80). Es-
says on career and other issues by
academics born between the mid-
1960s and the late 1970s.
Hacking the Academy: New
Approaches to Scholarship and
Teaching From Digital Humani-
ties, edited by Daniel J. Cohen
and Tom Scheinfeldt (University of
Michigan Press; 168 pages; $22.95).
Offers brief essays on such topics as
reinventing the academic journal,
open-access publishing, making
digital scholarship count, and re-
imagining academic archives.
Higher Education in the Digi-
tal Age, by William G. Bowen
(Princeton University Press/Itha-
ka; 192 pages; $26.95). Examines
the sources of ever-rising costs in
higher education and considers the
transformative potential of online
learning.
Is College Worth It? A Former
United States Secretary of Edu-
cation and a Liberal Arts Gradu-
ate Expose the Broken Promise
of Higher Education, by William
Bennett with David Wilezol (Thom-
as Nelson; 240 pages; $22.99). Ar-
gues that most of American higher
education fails most students and
criticizes the sector for high costs,
poor academic performance, politi-
cal indoctrination, and other sins;
argues for an expansion of vocation-
al schooling.
Mothers in Academia, edited by
Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro
(Columbia University Press; 288
pages; $82.50 hardcover, $27.50
paperback). Essays by women who
have been mothers as undergradu-
ate and graduate students, faculty,
administrators, and academic staff;
topics include “to tell or not to tell”
for single mothers in the academic
job market.
Top Student, Top School? How
Social Class Shapes Where Vale-
dictorians Go to College, by Alex-
andria Walton Radford (University
of Chicago Press; 274 pages; $85
hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Uses
data from a five-state study of 900
public-high-school valedictorians
to examine how social class figures
in many top students’ ending up at
less-selective institutions; consid-
ers, for example, the problem of
parents uninformed about finan-
cial-aid options, college reputation,
and other aspects of the application
process.
The Worth of the University, by
Richard C. Levin (Yale University
Press; 282 pages; $28). A collection
of essays and speeches, most previously unpublished, from the second
decade of the economist’s presidency of Yale University, a post from
which he will soon retire.
70% OF EXECUTIVES THINK TODAY’S GRADS ARE NOT PREPARED. THE OTHER 30% HAVE MET A BENTLEY GRAD.
At Bentley University, we don’t just focus on higher education. We focus on getting people hired. So we take a broad view of education. One that spans industries, encompasses the arts and sciences and rounds out our students’ résumés with real-world experience. So while 70% of execs may not believe recent grads are ready for the business world,* the other 30% have clearly met a Bentley graduate. Visit bentley.edu to learn more.
