Publications
- Libraries & Scholarly Communication
- Research Report
The Costs of Publishing Monographs
Toward a Transparent Methodology
- February 5, 2016
- Nancy L. Maron, Christine Mulhern, Daniel Rossman, Kimberly Schmelzinger
Executive Summary The University Press business model faces numerous challenges today, with revenues under pressure due to a host of factors, from the decline of bricks-and-mortar stores and shifting library purchase patterns to the still emerging distribution and revenue models made possible by digital books. Over the last few years, certain forces have emerged and intensified—federal mandates for Open …
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- Case Study
Student Success by Design
CUNY’s Guttman Community College
- February 4, 2016
- Jessie Brown, Martin Kurzweil
Introduction A growing number of American community colleges are redesigning their curricula, advising services, faculty development programs, and relationships with four year institutions in order to help more students succeed. In most cases, reforms take place within existing operating structures, as gradual processes of cultural and institutional change. A response to dismal persistence and completion rates at community colleges, Guttman …
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- Research Report
Diversity in the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Community
- January 28, 2016
- Roger C. Schonfeld, Liam Sweeney
Background New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the United States at a city level, ranking fourth in the country based on 2010 census data.[1] There are over 1,000 cultural organizations in the five boroughs, each with specific ties to communities, each with vastly different organizational structures and sizes, and each integral to the …
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- Research Report
Can Online Learning Improve College Math Readiness?
Randomized Trials Using Pearson’s MyFoundationsLab in Summer Bridge Programs
- December 14, 2015
- Rebecca J. Griffiths, Matthew Chingos, Christine Mulhern
Executive Summary Far too many students in the United States start their postsecondary education without being able to demonstrate the skills and knowledge deemed necessary to succeed in college-level math. Colleges and universities have traditionally dealt with this problem by placing students in full-semester developmental courses for which they must pay full tuition but do not receive college credit. It …
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- Research Report
Office of Scholarly Communication
Scope, Organizational Placement, and Planning in Ten Research Libraries
- November 18, 2015
- Deanna Marcum, Roger C. Schonfeld, Sarah Thomas
Introduction The phrase “scholarly communication” appears often in the description of library roles and responsibilities, but the function is still new enough that it takes different forms in different institutions. There is no common understanding of where it fits into the library’s organizational structure. This landscape review of offices of scholarly communication grows out of research originally conducted by Ithaka …
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- Case Study
Leveraging Technology for the Liberal Arts
The Council of Independent Colleges Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction
- November 4, 2015
- Deanna Marcum, Clara Samayoa
Introduction The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), created in 1956, is a membership organization of nearly 700 independent, non-profit colleges and universities. The organization exists to support college and university leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance public understanding of private higher education’s contributions to society. To achieve these goals, CIC hosts and develops programs, seminars, and conferences that help institutions …
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Collaborating for Student Success at Valencia College
- October 29, 2015
- Jessie Brown, Martin Kurzweil
Introduction In recent years, a promising conversation about change at community colleges has emerged. Employing the language of redesign and reinvention, this conversation emphasizes comprehensive, broad-sweeping reform, and calls for a reorientation of community college missions around student learning and student success. Though it is hard to disagree that improving student outcomes is desirable, the traditional enrollment and funding models …
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- Issue Brief
Research Data Management
Roles for Libraries
- October 22, 2015
- Neil Rambo
Background: the emerging role of data management in research libraries I first became aware of research data management as a frontier area of expertise for libraries and librarians almost 10 years ago. Tony Hey was one of the first to popularize the term ‘e-science’ and the idea that librarians had a role to play in managing research data.[1] …
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CIC Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction
Evaluation Report for First Course Iteration
- October 20, 2015
- Rebecca J. Griffiths, Jessie Brown, Christine Mulhern
Summary of Findings This report provides our preliminary analysis of evidence generated from the planning period and first iteration of CIC Consortium courses. It includes a summary of our findings, followed by a description and presentation of a good portion of the data for those interested in delving deeper. It is important to note that these courses finished very recently, …
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Exploring Group Study at the University of Nevada, Reno
- October 8, 2015
- Ann Medaille, Molly Beisler, Tara Radniecki, Maggie Ressel, Heidi Slater, Danielle Cooper, Nancy Fried Foster
Foreword Libraries continually struggle with how to make the best use of their space, and collaborative study spaces have been added to support the perceived requirements for group projects. The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) wanted to know what kind of spaces students actually need to do their work, and brought in Ithaka S+R’s senior anthropologist, Nancy Fried Foster, to …
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