Journal of Higher Education articles from January 2007

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 2007

Demographic inertia revisited: an immodest proposal to achieve equitable gender representation among faculty in higher education.(Statistical data)
January 1, 2007... Progress toward equitable gender representation among faculty in higher education has been "glacial" since the early 1970s (Glazer-Raymo, 1999; Lomperis, 1990; Trower & Chait, 2002). Women, who now make up a majority of undergraduate degree...

Higher education journals' Discourse about Adult Undergraduate Students.(Statistical data)
January 1, 2007... In 1999-2000, 7.1 million adults age 24 or older constituted 43% of all undergraduates in U.S. institutions of higher education, compared to 5.73 million adult students enrolled a decade earlier (1989-1990). When defined as people 25 and older,...

Reward systems and NSF university research centers: the impact of tenure on university scientists' valuation of applied and commercially relevant research.(National Science Foundation)
January 1, 2007... Over the past three decades, U.S. science policy (1) has shifted from decentralized support of small, investigator-initiated research projects to more centralized, block grant-based, multidisciplinary research centers. No matter one's take on...

Academic capitalism and doctoral student socialization: a case study.(Case study)
January 1, 2007... In the last two and a half decades, the U.S. government has fostered cooperation between industries and universities in order to cope with funding gaps and global competitive markets by introducing a number of laws and programs that allow...

The distribution of job satisfaction among young European graduates: does the choice of study field matter?
January 1, 2007... Investment in education appears to be related to people's success in making many decisions concerning their working life. Higher education, in particular, promotes more efficient decision-making processes related to the labor market through the...

The Research University Presidency in the Late 20th Century: A Life Cycle/Case History Approach.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Research University Presidency in the Late 20th Century: A Life Cycle/Case History Approach by H. Keith H. Brodie and Leslie Banner. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 347 pp. ISBN 0-275-98560-1 Leadership is one of the most discussed topics...

Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career by Rachel Hile Bassett (ed.). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. 253 pp. Paper $24.95. ISBN 0826512782 The challenge of raising children while pursuing...