Academic Resources
Suggested Reading
This suggested reading list is intended to be a resource for the MSHE community. Whether you are a newly admitted student looking to increase your knowledge of higher education administration or a graduate of the program interested in continuing your professional development, the books and articles listed here are a good place to start.
These resources were suggested by instructors and alumni. If you have additional resources you think we should add please contact ms-highered@northwestern.edu and let us know!
Academic and Career Advising
Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook
By Virginia N. Gordon, Welsey R. Habley, and Thomas J. Grites
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Admissions and Enrollment Management
Crafting a Class: College Admissions & Financial Aid, 1955-1994
By Elizabeth A. Duffy and Idana Goldberg
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Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line
By David L. Kirp, Elizabeth Berman, Jeffrey T. Holman & Patrick Roberts
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Athletics
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values
By William G. Bowen, Sarah A. Levin, James L. Shulman and Colin G. Campbell
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The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values
By James L. Shulman, William G. Bowen, Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld
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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
By Murray Sperber
🔗Assessment
Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate
By Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber and Gene I. Maeroff
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Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education: Views and Perspectives
By Peter Hernon and Robert E. Dugan
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Assessment in Higher Education: Student Learning, Teaching, Programmes and Institutions
By John Heywood
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Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education
Edited By Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
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Change Management and Central Administration
Mission and Money: Understanding the University
By Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou and Evelyn D. Asch
🔗College Access, Under-Served Populations and Community Colleges
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
By William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin
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Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education
Edited By Eugene Y. Lowe
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Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College
By Gail Mellow and Cynthia Heelan
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The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
By Walter Benn Michaels
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Development, Fundraising and Alumni Relations
History of Higher Education
Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students
By Henry N. Drewry and Humphrey Doermann
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The Contradictory College: The Conflict Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College
By Kevin James Dougherty
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Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present
By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636
By Frederick Rudolph
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In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America
By Barbara Miller Solomon
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SHE Reader on Community Colleges (3rd Edition)
By Association for the Study of Higher Education and Barbara T. Townsend
🔗Professional Development, Management and Efficiency
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
By Richard N. Bolles
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The Mid-level Manager in Student Affairs: Strategies for Success
By Robert L. Ackerman and Larry D. Roper
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Student Engagement and Student Development
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties
By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
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Campus Life: In Search of Community
By Ernest L. Boyer and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully
By Larry A. Braskamp, Lois Calian Trautvetter and Kelly Ward
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Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility
By Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont and Jason Stephens
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Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter
By George D. Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh and Elizabeth J. Whitt
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Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student
By Arthur Levine and Diane R. Dean
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
By Walter W. McMahon
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How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research
By Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini
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Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities
By Peter N. Stearns
🔗Teaching and Learning
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults
By Patricia Cranton
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Knowledge Transfer in Higher Education: Collaboration in the Arts and Humanities
By Lisa Mooney Smith
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The Formation of Scholars
By George E. Walker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones and Andrea Conklin Bueschel
🔗General Higher Education
Arms and the University: Military Presence and Civic Education of Non-Military Students
By Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtzashvili
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Higher Education?: How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids
By Claudia Dreifus and Andrew Hacker
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The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
By Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring
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The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
By Benjamin Ginsberg
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