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
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
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)
Completing College by Vincent TintoDIY U by Anya KamenetzWhat the Best College Students Do by Ken BainMore Than Listening by Ruth HarperEngaging Students Through Social Media by Reynol Junco
Student Affairs Must Reads
21 books — 8 voters
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyLeadership by Craig B. WheldenFlow by Mihály CsíkszentmihályiSwitch by Chip HeathSmarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
TIAA ELN 1 Reading List
54 books — 2 voters

Compass Rose by Carly Eccles SheafferThe Oracle of Spring Garden Road by Norrin M. Ripsman
Books By Professors
2 books — 2 voters
Excellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczAcademically Adrift by Richard ArumThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani GuinierFail U. by Charles J. SykesThe Chosen by Jerome Karabel
Controversies in Higher Education
209 books — 48 voters


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Keith E. Stanovich
The unique epistemic role of the university in our culture was to set up conditions where students could learn how to bring arguments and evidence to a question, and to teach them not to project convictions derived from tribal loyalties onto the evaluation of evidence on testable questions. The rise of identity politics should have been recognized by university faculties as a threat to their ability to teach decoupled argumentation and evidence evaluation. As a monistic ideology (Tetlock 1986), ...more
Keith E. Stanovich, The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

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