HED 610: Case studies in Student Development and Higher Education Administration

Higher Education Resource Hub One-stop shopping for college and university web sites, research centers, job ads, history, professional associations, and more.

College analysis, comparisons and rankings:

• College and University Rankings
• National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
• Educational Rankings Annual (Ref LB2331.63 .E34 2002)
• Gourman Report: Graduate (Ref LB2331.63 .G67 1997) and Gourman Report: Undergraduate (Ref LB2331.62 .G68 1998)
• Educational Rankings Annual (Ref LB2331.63 .E34 2002)
• Peterson's Education Portal
• Almanac of the Chronicle of Higher Education under Features: Issues in Depth
• The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
• HBCU-CENTRAL.COM Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Other sites of interest:

• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education Provides state reports and national summary data on state tax appropriations for higher education.
• StudentAffairs Online The Online magazine about technology and student affairs.
• AAUP [American Association of University Professors]: Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure Includes policy statements and list of censured university and college administrations.
• ACPA: American College Personnel Association

• NASPA: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
  Center for Public Policy section has information about legislation affecting higher ed on a wide range of topics (e.g. federal aid to students with drug convictions, ergonomics, campus crime reporting).

Journal information

• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education Primer on Higher Education Literature
• Journal of College and University Law Fogler Library does not have a subscription. Indexed on this web site and in ERIC (with a delay).
• Chronicle of Higher Education Major stories are indexed, with full-text, in Academic Search Premier. To access restricted parts of the Chronicle web site (e.g. full archive searching, current job ads), get UM ID and password from the URSUS record.
• Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning; Indexed, with full-text articles, in Academic Search Premier.
• Articles about higher education are indexed in many databases. Some of the most useful indexes, available from Fogler Library's Indexes and Databases list, are ERIC, Academic Search Premier, and Professional Development Collection. 

Job Hunting Resources

• Academic360.com
• Higher Education Jobs
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• NACAC: National Association for College Admission Counseling
• StudentAffairs.com
• AACRAO: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

Diversity Resources

• AHEAD: Association on Higher Education & Disability
• American With Disabilities Act Document Center
• Women-Related Higher Education Web Sites
• DiversityWeb: A Resource Hub for Higher Education
• Diversity Database, University of Maryland
• The Black Collegian Online
• African-American History and Studies
• NGLTF: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• GLSEN: Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network
• GLAD: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
• National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education

Book Reviews

Print indexes to book reviews in journals and magazines:

• Book Review Index Ref Index Z 1035 A1 B6
• Book Review Digest Ref Index Z 1219 C96
• New York Times Index Ref Index AI 21 N44

Online databases that index book reviews in journals and magazines:

These are available under Indexes and Databases from the Fogler Library home page at http://library.umaine.edu/

• Academic Search Premier
• Business Source Premier
• Professional Development Collection

Internet Sites that include book reviews:

• Amazon.com Online bookstore, with full-text reviews and excerpts from standard sources such as Booklist and Kirkus Reviews, as well as reader reviews. Best for 1996+
• www.barnesandnoble.com Online bookstore, with full-text reviews and excerpts from standard sources such as Library Journal, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and Society, as well as reader reviews. Best for 1996+
• www.nytimes.com New York Times web site, free registration required. NYT full-text reviews from 1996+
• the complete review
• Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews
• Education Book Reviews

deborah.rollins@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/25/2008

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