Journal of Higher Education articles from January 1998

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 1998

Contract systems, bureaucracies, and faculty motivation: the probable effects of a no-tenure policy.
January 1, 1998... Introduction As has been widely and hauntingly articulated in recent years, colleges and universities have come under increasing scrutiny from their various constituencies, who have been severely disappointed with a perceived...

Beyond Boyer's 'Scholarship Reconsidered': fundamental change in the university and the socioeconomic systems.
January 1, 1998... The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve . . . a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical...

Adult students in higher education: burden or boon?
January 1, 1998... Since the mid-1970s, universities in the United States have recruited substantial numbers of students from the older sections of the population. Indeed, during this period the proportion of so-called adult students (i.e., those who are over the...

Correlates of the SAT in minority engineering students: an exploratory study. (Scholastic Aptitude Test)
January 1, 1998... Project Preserve is a program designed to retain minority engineering students who have experienced academic difficulty (Morning & Fleming, 1994). The NASA-funded effort channeled African American and Latino engineering students who had failed...

Review essay. (higher education in Canada)
January 1, 1998... MARC CUTRIGHT, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Globalization of curricula and other purviews of higher education has become a near mantra of recent years, a trend driven by forces as disparate as communication technologies,...

Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives.
January 1, 1998... MARC CUTRIGHT, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Globalization of curricula and other purviews of higher education has become a near mantra of recent years, a trend driven by forces as disparate as communication technologies,...

Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force.
January 1, 1998... CLIFFORD ADELMAN, U.S. Department of Education Norton Grubb, a prolific student of occupational education in the United States, provided us with two overlapping volumes in 1996. Learning to Work is an important and good read for both social...

Learning to Work: The Case for Reintegrating Job Training and Education.
January 1, 1998... CLIFFORD ADELMAN, U.S. Department of Education Norton Grubb, a prolific student of occupational education in the United States, provided us with two overlapping volumes in 1996. Learning to Work is an important and good read for both social...