Recently added articles from Journal of Higher Education:
General education models: continuity and change in the U.S. undergraduate curriculum, 1975-2000.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... General education requirements comprise, on average, approximately 30% of the undergraduate curriculum and therefore represent an important feature of the student academic experience in American colleges and universities. Previous studies have not fully examined the origins of ...
University students' perceptions of plagiarism.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Students who engage in plagiarism present a problem for all educators, especially those at the secondary and post-secondary levels. To those teaching at the university level, the ever-increasing availability of electronic material must certainly be making plagiarism easier for students and ...
College knowledge of 9th and 11th grade students: variation by school and state context.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... While college enrollment rates have increased over the last 40 years, gaps still exist across groups. College enrollment rates are lower for high school graduates whose parents have not attended college, those with low-incomes, as well as Black and Latino/a students than for other high ...
Partisans, professionals, and power: the role of political factors in state higher education funding.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... In recent years, several converging trends have constrained state appropriations for public postsecondary institutions. Despite real growth in total appropriations of state tax funds for postsecondary operating expenses, state investment in higher education has substantially declined ...
The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2009; ... The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men by Linda J. Sax. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. 352 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7879-6575-4. The gender gap in higher education enrollments and degree completion has ...