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Imperial Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Yucay, Peru

Transcribed and edited by R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González

University of Michigan Press, 2008

In this volume, R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González present an archaeological and historical introduction to the Yucay Valley, as well as the complete transcription of the first volume of documents in the Betancur Collection.

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Implementing for Results

Your Strategic Plan in Action

Sandra Nelson

American Library Association, 2009

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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities

A Study of Three Jurisdictions

Amy Lai

University of Michigan Press, 2023

In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth, democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university.

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Innovating Higher Education at a Small University

Navigating Shifting Paradigms with Humanity and Heart

Matthew E. Gordley

Rutgers University Press, 2027

Higher education is at a moment of real uncertainty. Colleges and universities are being asked to respond to changing student needs, financial pressure, and growing questions about value and purpose. Innovating Higher Education at a Small University offers a grounded and hopeful response to these challenges. Through a series of real, lived case studies, the book shows how one small, mission driven institution is rethinking how it teaches, partners, and serves its community. Spanning interdisciplinary work across teacher preparation, literacy, healthcare, and the arts, the chapters highlight what becomes possible when faculty and leaders are trusted to innovate with intention and care. Each chapter shares not only what was built, but also what was learned along the way, offering clear insights that others can adapt to their own contexts. Not a book about abstract trends or emerging technologies, it is grounded in program design, relationships, and project implementation. It is a book about people doing the work, and a reminder that meaningful change in higher education is already happening in places willing to lead with both humanity and purpose.

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Inside Academia

Professors, Politics, and Policies

Cahn, Steven M

Rutgers University Press, 2019

Drawing on decades of experience as a renowned teacher, advisor, administrator, and philosopher, Steven M. Cahn diagnoses problems plaguing America’s universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. He explores numerous aspects of academic life, including the education of graduate students, the quality of teaching, the design of liberal arts curricula, and the procedures for appointing faculty and considering them for tenure.

Inside Academia uses real cases to illustrate how faculty members, deans, and provosts often do not serve the best interests of schools or students. Yet the book also highlights efforts of those who have committed themselves and their institutions to the pursuit of academic excellence.

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Insourced

How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad

Dr. Kate Tulenko

Dartmouth College Press, 2012

For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans realize that a parallel dynamic is occurring in the healthcare sector—previously one of the most consistent sources of stable, dependable living-wage jobs in the entire nation. Instead of outsourcing high-paying jobs overseas—as the manufacturing and service sectors do—hospitals and other healthcare companies insource healthcare labor from developing countries, giving the jobs to people who are willing to accept lower pay and worse working conditions than U.S. healthcare workers. As Dr. Tulenko shows, insourcing has caused tens of thousands of high-paying local jobs in the healthcare sector to effectively vanish from the reach of U.S. citizens, weakened the healthcare systems of developing nations, and constricted the U.S. health professional education system. She warns Americans about what she’s seeing—a stunning story they’re scarcely aware of, which impacts all of us directly and measurably—and describes how to create better American health professional education, more high-paying healthcare jobs, and improved health for the poor in the developing world.

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Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks

African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa

Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society.
By uncovering the role of such men (and a few women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.

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Investing Wisely

Informed Approaches to Designing and Implementing Allocation Systems for Graduate Assistantships

Roger B. Sidje, Joan M. Barth, Ellary A. Draper, Matthew J. Jenny, Daniel L. Riches, and Dean M. Townsley

University of Alabama Press, 2026

Investing in Graduate Education Through Data, Equity, and Purpose.

Investing Wisely: Informed Approaches to Designing and Implementing Allocation Systems for Graduate Assistantships tackles one of the most consequential and least understood challenges in higher education: how universities can distribute graduate assistantships fairly, strategically, and transparently. Drawing on a multiyear effort at the University of Alabama, the authors introduce DIASGA™ (Designing and Implementing Allocation Systems for Graduate Assistantships), a practical framework for aligning graduate funding with institutional priorities, departmental needs, and student success. Through real-world experience, the book demonstrates how institutions can move beyond inherited funding patterns and build adaptive systems capable of responding to changing academic realities.

The book proposes a distinctive blend of rigorous analysis and practical guidance. The authors reveal the hidden complexities behind graduate funding decisions, challenging simplistic allocation formulas based on enrollment or credit-hour production. Instead, they advocate a data-informed, collaborative process grounded in departmental expertise, institutional values, and continuous assessment. Featuring case studies, implementation strategies, funding models, committee structures, and lessons learned from both successes and setbacks, Investing Wisely offers an unusually candid account of organizational change and resource allocation in higher education.

This book will be invaluable to provosts, deans, graduate school leaders, department chairs, faculty administrators, and higher education policymakers. It will also appeal to scholars of university governance, institutional effectiveness, and academic planning who seek practical approaches to balancing equity, accountability, and strategic investment. Whether your institution is reconsidering graduate funding practices or simply striving to make better-informed decisions, Investing Wisely provides a thoughtful roadmap for investing in graduate education with clarity, fairness, and purpose.