Autobiographical essay -- Four-dimensional framework of college athletes’ rights and well-being -- Latino males in U.S. higher education: Ten years of progress, lessons learned, and emerging research -- Increasing faculty diversity -- Difference-in-differences methodology -- History of religion -- Community college finance -- Decision-making -- An interdisciplinary return to queer and trans studies in higher education: Implications for research and practice -- The ambivalence about distance learning in higher education: Challenges, opportunities, and policy implications -- Examining the literature on faculty engagement in teaching and learning initiatives -- Sexual harassment on campus -- Privatization of public higher education.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each annual volume contains chapters that discuss salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries on topics pertaining to college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world. .