Journal of Higher Education articles from January 1999

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 1999

Cognitive impacts of intercollegiate athletic participation.
January 1, 1999... Some Further Evidence There can be little doubt that intercollegiate athletics is one of the significant filters through which the public looks at American postsecondary education (e.g., Focus on American Athletics, 1995; Lapchick, 1989;...

Exploring underrepresentation: the case of faculty of color in the Midwest.
January 1, 1999... Introduction On the brink of the twenty-first century, our nation continues to struggle with the challenge of becoming a multicultural society. Although our society takes pride in the opportunities for mobility offered to its citizens,...

Academic technology and the future of higher education: strategic paths taken and not taken.
January 1, 1999... It may seem odd that an article concerned with the future of higher education should begin with an analysis of a technological phenomenon. The pattern I am referring to is the "time-lag" that often separates the invention of a paradigm-altering...

The impact of role conflict and ambiguity on academic deans.
January 1, 1999... In the academic anatomy of institutions of higher learning, deans provide the delicate but crucial backbone of university decision making. They, more than any other academic administrators, link central administration with academic departments....

Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning.(Review)
January 1, 1999... edited by Grant Reeher and Joseph Cammarano. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 228+ pp. $65.00 ($24.95) BARBARA JACOBY, University of Maryland Education for Citizenship is a provocative and thoroughly readable volume on a topic...

Antifeminism in the Academy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... edited by Veve Clark, Shirley Nelson Garner, Margaret Higonnet, and Ketu H. Katrak. New York: Routledge, 1996. 228 pp. $17.99 MARY ANN DANOWITZ SAGARIA, The Ohio State University Silence has never brought us anything of worth. ...