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Writing a Book Proposal

SRHE

by Rachel Brooks and Sarah O’Shea Professor Rachel Brooks and Professor Sarah O’Shea (editors of the SRHE/Routledge Book series) recently ran a Professional Development Programme event on ‘Writing a Book Proposal’. Publishing a book is a significant undertaking – so why do it?

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Lessons in Public Scholarship

Inside Higher Ed

When my co-editor, Ian Bogost, and I launched our book and essay series “Object Lessons” 10 years ago, we just wanted to make some pretty short books and accessible, engaging essays about deceptively simple topics: basic things instead of big ideas.

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Author discusses recent book on the 'Morehouse Man'

Inside Higher Ed

The book, Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (UC Press), bases its conclusions on a series of qualitative interviews with alumni. She responded to questions about her book via email. Image: Morehouse College is the only all-male historically Black college in the country.

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‘The Last Chairlift’ and Other 2022 Fiction

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation For a few years, I’ve used my last blog post of the calendar year to aggregate the book reviews I’ve published over the past year. Going on the idea that higher ed people are big readers, it would be interesting to hear about what you are reading when you read fiction.

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Girish Ballolla, CEO & founder of GenNext

The PIE News

Then I was in Doha in early October for the IACAC Middle East regional institute and the last day of the institute was a university fair that was hosted on the Georgetown Doha campus and this kid walks up beaming and gives me a big hug and said, ‘Remember me?’ What is a book or a podcast recommendation for others in the sector?

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Inside Higher Ed

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

People have been welcoming, kind, and ready to think about new ideas. And I keep telling people when I show up in a meeting and I have my voice instead of his, my presence instead of his, my personality instead of his, my way of thinking instead of his, it's a big deal after 30 years. These are big deals to me.