Journal of Higher Education articles from January 1997

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 1997

Organizational socialization in higher education.
January 1, 1997... A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist. Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author Socialization...

Research, reputation, and resources: the effect of research activity on perceptions of undergraduate education and institutional resource acquisition.
January 1, 1997... Introduction Critics of higher education have suggested that the emphasis placed on performing academic research at major universities has created a consequent deterioration of undergraduate education. Even though the performance of academic...

Fund raising and the college presidency in an era of uncertainty: from 1975 to the present. (1997)
January 1, 1997... Introduction When Harvard President Neil Rudenstine took a leave of absence at the end of 1994 in order to recover from exhaustion and to undergo a battery of medical tests, several published reports cited fund-raising stress as one...

No laughing matter: boundaries of gender-based humour in the classroom.
January 1, 1997... As personified in jokers, fools, and clowns, humour is an integral part of human history [44]. Humour can lighten what might otherwise be dull, tense, or tedious situations. Common definitions of humour emphasize "amusement" and "laughter,"...

Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities.
January 1, 1997... SUSAN TALBURT, Georgia State University American universities occupy a number of contradictory spaces in the public imagination: on one hand, a meritocratic tradition figures them as elite spaces occupied by a privileged few; on the other hand,...

Assessing What Professors Do: An Introduction to Academic Performance Appraisal in Higher Education.
January 1, 1997... JAMES R. DAVIS, University of Denver Assessing What Professors Do is an excellent reference for thinking clearly about how to evaluate teaching, research, and service and citizenship as elements of the faculty appraisal process used to...

The College Aid Quandary: Access, Quality, and the Federal Role.
January 1, 1997... MICHAEL MUMPER, Ohio University In late 1994 the College Board and the Brookings Institution convened a conference attended by more than one hundred fifty of the nation's leading experts on college access and federal higher education policy....