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This well-respected, peer-reviewed journal provides both theoretical and practical information on issues in higher education. Published annually, it has a readership of more than 150,000.
New Call for Papers!
Welcome to the 2012 issue of Thought & Action!
The new issue of Thought & Action includes articles on the politics of contingent labor, the effects of Right to Work laws, the emergence of Western Governors University, plus advice on how to teach students veterans and more.
- Overview by Mary Ellen Flannery
- The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor by Claire Goldstene
- Poverty, Productivity, and Public Health: The Effects of 'Right to Work' Laws on Key Standards of Living by Darrell Minor
- Why Can't a Firm Be More Like a College? by Chad Hanson
- The Negotiator: Conditions for Successful Interest Based Bargaining by Gregg Primo Ventello
- On Using GIS to Teach in the Social Sciences by Jill S. Harris
- The Mother of Microloans (and Obama), an interview with Alice G. Dewey by Christine Maitland
- A University Without Intellectuals: Western Governors University and the Academy's Future by Johann N. Neem
- Ten Things You Should Know About Today's Student Veteran by Alison Lighthall
- The Anti-Egalitarian Mission to Destroy Public Education in America by Jon E. Travis
- Territory by J.D. Scrimgeour
- Defending the Ivory Tower: Toward Critical Community Engagement by Matthew H. Bowker
- CUNY Community College Graduation Rates Do Not Effectively Measure Student Success by Jeffrey Lax
- Teaching as Relationship: Opportunities to Mentor Our Students by Rebecca Fawns-Justeson
- Unlocking Minds by Jenny Greene and Jill Knapp
- Class Matters: A Review of Change Edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy by Bill Lyne
- "Leading from the Bottom: Creating Change from Under Cover: A Review of Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership: An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education by Judy Olson
- Let Us Have Such Colleges: A Review of Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest by Mark F. Smith
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