Recently added articles from Journal of Higher Education:
Hispanic origin, socio-economic status, and community college enrollment.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction This paper discusses the nature of the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and the over-representation of Hispanic (1) students in community colleges, and whether SES can help us understand Hispanic student choices in higher education. Even ...
Creating a campus culture of integrity: comparing the perspectives of full- and part-time faculty.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Discussions of academic integrity are becoming increasingly important on college campuses across the country (Bush-weller, 1999; Center for Academic Integrity, 2005; Gomez, 2001; McCaffrey, 2001; Vincent, 1999). Recent survey data gathered from 50,000 undergraduates on over 60 college ...
Rooted in the soil: the social experiences of Black (1) graduate students at a Southern Research University.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Black people in United States, especially in the southern United States where this study took place, have a complex view of their state universities. They know that from the time their flagship state universities were chartered in the late 1700s to the time that these institutions were ...
Learning from the experience of others: the evolution of faculty tenure and promotion rules in comprehensive institutions.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction American higher education experienced periods of both dramatic expansion and slow growth after World War II. Undergraduate enrollments increased rapidly after the war. The launching of Sputnik stimulated a wave of production of PhDs. The rapid expansion from the war ...
Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community, by G. L. Kramer& Associates.San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2007. 460 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN: 1-933371-24-2. Fostering student success in the campus community, edited by Gary Kramer, ...
New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities by William G. Tierney and Guilbert C. Hentschke. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 216 pp. Cloth: $38.00. ISBN 0801886570. ...
Towards a theory of doctoral student professional identity development: a developmental networks approach.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... What role do relationships play in the professional identity development process for individuals on the path to the professoriate? Understanding the influence of relationships and determining "how and why relationships matter" (Gersick, Bartunek, & Button, 2000, p. 1027) has been important ...
White, male, and "minority": racial consciousness among white male undergraduates attending a historically Black university.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Enrollments of non-Black students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have recently increased (Drummond, 2000; T. Scott, 2004) to the point that 11% of all undergraduate students enrolled in HBCUs in 2001 were White (U. S. Department of Education National Center for ...
Engaging with difference matters: longitudinal student outcomes of co-curricular service-learning programs.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The potential contribution of co-curricular service-learning to develop engaged citizens is relatively unexplored. Much of the available research on college-level service-learning has studied the effect of service-learning in single courses on a variety of student outcome measures and ...
Maintaining credibility and authority as an instructor of color in diversity-education classrooms: a qualitative inquiry.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The movement for multicultural or diversity-centered education has resulted in changes to the academic demography of the United States (Banks, 1991; Butler & Walter, 1991; Goodstein, 1994; Morey & Kitano, 1997). Institutions of higher education have integrated the voices, knowledge, and ...
Campus Life Revealed: Tracking Down the Rich Resources of American Collegiate Fiction.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The American College Novel: An Annotated Bibliography, by John E. Kramer. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 403 pp. ISBN 0-8108-4957-7 Anyone who has ever attended a PowerPoint presentation about campus finances at a Board of Trustees meeting will be tempted to conclude ...
Higher Education: Open for Business.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Higher Education: Open for Business, by Christian Gilde (Ed.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 196 pp. ISBN 0739118471. The title of Christian Gilde's edited book, Higher Education: Open for Business (2007), conveys the basic theme and tone of the book, which seeks, in part, ...
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Daniel Golden. New York: Crown, 2006. 298 pp. $25.95. ISBN 1400097967. CAROLINE CHIANG, University of Southern California CHRISTOPHER GRILLO ....
After Admission: From College Access to College Success.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... After Admission: From College Access to College Success, by James E. Rosenbaum, Regina Deil-Amen, and Ann E. Person. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. 267 pp. ISBN 9780871547071. James E. Rosenbaum, Regina Deil-Amen, and Ann E. Person's After Admission: From College ...
Developing academic strategic alliances: reconciling multiple institutional cultures, policies, and practices.(Case study)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Promise of Interinstitutional Collaboration Colleges and universities have often been required to evolve in response to shifting societal priorities. Over the past century, this occurred in the context of an ever-expanding system of higher education built with a substantial ...
The state-sponsored student entrepreneur.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education (Slaughter & Rhoades, 2004), academic capitalism was theorized and empirically detailed as a new knowledge/learning regime. However, slaughter and Rhoades examined students' roles primarily as educational ...
What's being sold and to what end? A content analysis of college viewbooks.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Introduction Viewbooks--the glossy multi-page brochures that colleges and universities send to tens of thousands of prospective students each year--are an important medium by which institutions of higher learning entice students to matriculate. Well into the age of the Internet ...
Proscriptive norms for academic deans: comparing faculty expectations across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Academic administrators work in complex environments for which the term "organized anarchy" is highly appropriate (Cohen & March, 1974; Wolverton, Wolverton, & Gmelch, 1999). In this culture, they strive to support and improve the central activities of the academy: learning, teaching, ...
State Postsecondary Education Research: New Methods to Inform Policy and Practice.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... State postsecondary Education Research: New Methods to Inform Policy and Practice, by Kathleen M. Shaw and Donald E. Heller (eds.) Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2007. 160 pp. ISBN 1579222110. Policy making in higher education occurs at a number of different levels: departmental, ...
Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Prevention, Response, and Recovery.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Prevention, Response, and Recovery by Eugene L., Zdziarski II, Norbert W. Dunkel, J. Michael Rollo, & Associates. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0787978747. This book should be closely studied ...