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Peter J. Dougherty
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Matt Rohal
Associate Editor (Skills for Scholars)
The Princeton University Press education list highlights higher education and features works by economists, historians, and other scholars from the social sciences and humanities. Originating in the early 1990s, the list initially foregrounded the works of the late former Princeton president William G. Bowen and his coauthors, and has included such notable titles as Bowen and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River.
The list enhances the discussion around higher education by publishing not only great works of scholarship, but also practical books on teaching, learning, and research, as well as titles on best practices in university leadership and administration.
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Featured Audiobooks
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Ideas
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Educating citizens
The presidential election of 2016 prompted many academic leaders and faculty members to ponder the implications for their own institution.
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Rachel Gable on The Hidden Curriculum
Rachel Gable, author of The Hidden Curriculum, presents the results of her investigation into the difficulties first generation students must overcome to succeed.
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The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors
The scholarly book proposal may be academia’s most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get published, but most scholars receive no training on how to do so—and you may have never even seen a proposal before you’re expected to produce your own.
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Ideas Podcast: Moving Up without Losing Your Way
Upward mobility through higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, little attention has been paid to the personal compromises such students make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.
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Pandemic lessons to take to college
What have you missed most during the isolation of the pandemic? For most of us, it’s being in the same room with real humans, visiting with friends and family, and meeting new people.
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Why are no-excuses schools moving beyond no excuses?
This past year has forced schools to make significant changes to their practices. It has also prompted teachers and administrators to reimagine education and to rearticulate a new vision for their schools—as I’ve seen at “no excuses” charter schools, which I have spent the last decade studying and observing.
