Journal of Higher Education articles

Recent articles from Journal of Higher Education

Hispanic origin, socio-economic status, and community college enrollment.(Report)
March 1, 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 though Hispanic...

Creating a campus culture of integrity: comparing the perspectives of full- and part-time faculty.(Report)
March 1, 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)
March 1, 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)
March 1, 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 until the...

Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community.(Book review)
March 1, 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, a professor of counseling...