Journal of Higher Education articles from January 1995

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 1995

On the making of hard times and good times: the social construction of resource stress.
January 1, 1995... 32. Neumann, A. "Double Vision: The Experience of Institutional Stability." Review of Higher Education, 15 (Summer 1992), 341-71. 33. -----. "The Thinking Team: Toward a Cognitive Model of Administrative Teamwork in Higher Education." Journal...

Writerly rules for teachers.
January 1, 1995... 34. Kuiper, N. A., L. J. Olinger, and R. A. Martin. "Dysfunctional Attitudes, Stress, and Negative Emotions." Cognitive Therapy and Research, 12 (1988), 533-47. 35. Kurfiss, J. G. Critical Thinking. Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study...

Using multiple outcomes to validate student ratings of overall teacher effectiveness.
January 1, 1995... Introduction Many reasons have been offered for questioning the validity of student evaluations of faculty teaching performance or for minimizing their importance in decisions on faculty promotion and tenure. However, judging by the views of...

Understanding classroom interaction: students' and professors' contributions to students' silence.
January 1, 1995... Some students eagerly participate in class daily. Yet, at semester's end most classes contain students who have not uttered a word since first-day introductions. Why the difference? This perplexing question is important because, whether one's...

Review essay.
January 1, 1995... by Barry M. Kroll. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. 215 pp. $24.95 Barry M. Kroll's Teaching Hearts and Minds joins a growing body of literature concerned specifically with how information about the Vietnam conflict is and...

Women's Lives through Time: Educated American Women of the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1995... edited by Kathleen Day Hulbert and Diane Tickton Schuster. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. xxxiii + 456 pp. $48.95 This book provides an evolving picture of the life course of women educated in the United States in this century. It pays...

Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World.
January 1, 1995... by Paula J. Caplan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 344 pp. $45.00 ($18.95) Although there have been a number of books analyzing issues facing women academics (notably Aisenberg and Harington's Women of Academe: Outsiders in the...

The New Faculty Member: Supporting and Fostering Professional Development.
January 1, 1995... by Robert Boice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 364 pp. $31.95. Robert Boice's scrupulously researched book will appeal to all teachers and administrators interested in faculty development, especially those committed to helping new and/or...

Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers.
January 1, 1995... by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 427 pp. $32.95 What is it that has already induced thousands of faculty to buy a book that features the dreaded word "assessment" in its title? One big clue...

Student Housing and Residential Life.
January 1, 1995... by Roger B. Winston, Jr., Scott Anchors, and associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 628 pp. $49.95 Winston and Anchors state that Student Housing and Residential Life was designed to be a comprehensive handbook summarizing and...

Governing Public Colleges and Universities: A Handbook for Trustees, Chief Executives, and Other Campus Leaders.
January 1, 1995... by Richard T. Ingram and associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 471 pp. $49.95 As a former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and president of the board, I asked myself whether the book would have been helpful...

Tenure, Discrimination, and the Courts.
January 1, 1995... by Terry L. Leap. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1993. 224 pp. $34.00 ($16.95) Over two decades have passed since Congress extended the protections of the primary federal discrimination law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to institutions...

Leadership Skills for Department Chairs.
January 1, 1995... by Walter H. Gmelch and Val D. Miskin. Bolton, Mass.: Anker Publishing, 1993. 197 pp. $30.95 Academic chairpersons comprise a sizable investment in the academy. Writers have estimated that the number of chairpersons is nearly eighty thousand...

Effective Communication for Academic Chairs.
January 1, 1995... by Mark Hickson III and Don W. Stacks. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992 $14.95 (paper) Academic chairpersons comprise a sizable investment in the academy. Writers have estimated that the number of chairpersons is nearly...

Educating Professionals: Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability.
January 1, 1995... by Lynn Curry, Jon F. Wergin, and associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 317 pp. $34.95. Imagine a medical school where future physicians are taught for four years by basic scientists who have never treated a patient and where...