Lynch School of Education Professor Ana Martínez Alemán was honored with the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award in Division J (Postsecondary Education) for Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), a book she co-edited with Estela Mara Bensimon of the University of Southern California and Brian Pusser of the University of Virginia. The award was presented by the American Educational Research Association at their annual meeting. It recognizes scholars for specific publications judged as making substantial contributions to the literature and/or practice of higher education.
In “Take and Read,” a blog from National Catholic Reporter that features a different contributor’s reflections on a specific book that changed their lives, Canisius Professor James F. Keenan, S.J. shares his thoughts on Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church by Jean Zizioulas. Fr. Keenan took a course at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome taught by Zizioulas. In his 
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
In his new book, 
Johns Hopkins University Press has released the fourth edition of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, co-edited by Research Professor and Center for International Higher Education Founding Director Philip G. Altbach, Michael N. Bastedo and Patricia J. Gumport. The volume address major changes in higher education, including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, and the growth of for-profit and distance education. Three new chapters cover information technology, community colleges and teaching and learning. Placing higher education within its social and political contexts, the contributors discuss finance, federal and state governance, faculty, students, curriculum and academic leadership. Altbach’s chapters are “Harsh Realities: The Professoriate in the Twenty-First Century” and “Patterns of Higher Education Development.” This volume follows the publication last year of two books co-edited by Altbach and CIHE Associate Director Laura Rumbley: Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives and Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century: International Perspectives.
Offering a range of perspectives on internationalization in higher education from a globally dispersed group of authors, 
Alumnus Bill Plunkert, a former CIA agent featured in the book 
Students representing 25 Boston-area colleges and universities will read from their own poetry at the annual 
Alumnus R.T. Rybak, who served three terms as mayor of Minneapolis, has published a memoir about his life and time as mayor of his hometown. 
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