Contemporary Colleges & Universities—A Reader

Scholars of education, education leadership, and other disciplines, and some college administrators, look at students in and out of the classroom, changing roles of faculty in today's world, the transmission and transformation of the curriculum, administrators negotiating the labyrinth, and mirror images and transfigurations of social forces. Among their topics are higher education student affairs and services around the world, the impact of athletics upon the social sustainability of the college campus, a personal recollection of the changing hidden curriculum, the multi-faceted journey of a community college president, and historically Black colleges and universities and philanthropy. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Joseph L. DeVitis is Visiting Professor of Educational Foundations and Higher Education at Old Dominion University. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Author or editor of 14 books, he has written extensively on moral development, liberal education, and collegiate service-learning. His most recent books are a series of notable readers for Peter Lang Publishing: Critical Civic Literacy (2011); Character and Moral Education, edited with Tianlong Yu (2011); and Adolescent Education (2010), edited with Linda Irwin-DeVitis. The latter two books won Critics Choice Awards from AESA as outstanding books of the year.