Journal of Higher Education articles from July 2005

Journal of Higher Education archives from July 2005

State postsecondary policy innovation: politics, competition, and the interstate migration of policy ideas.
July 1, 2005... Over the course of nearly 50 years of shifting governance patterns in American postsecondary education, the issue of state-level policy innovation has remained near the center of discussion. In the immediate postwar era of the 1950s-1960s, each...

Beyond the rhetoric: trends in the relative value of teaching and research in faculty salaries.
July 1, 2005... In 1990, Ernest Boyer argued in Scholarship Reconsidered for a renewed commitment to college teaching by recasting instruction as a form of scholarship. He intended to enhance the visibility of teaching on college campuses and to reduce what he...

Values, policies, and practices affecting the hiring process for full-time arts and sciences faculty in community colleges.
July 1, 2005... Introduction Community colleges employ over 100,000 full-time faculty members, or one fifth of all faculty members in U.S. post-secondary education (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2001; Huber, 1998). These faculty members...

Modeling accentuation effects: enrolling in a diversity course and the importance of social action engagement.
July 1, 2005... Institutions of higher education have undertaken and have continued to create numerous programs and initiatives to increase students' engagement with social diversity. By creating contexts in which students encounter others from different...

Cogs in the Classroom Factory: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Cogs in the Classroom Factory: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor edited by Deborah M. Herman and Julie M. Schmid. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger Publishers, 2003. 232 pp. $66.95. ISBN 0-89789-814-1. GARY...

Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color.
July 1, 2005... Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color edited by L. I. Rendon, M.Garcia, and D. Person. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2004....

University Leadership in Urban School Renewal.
July 1, 2005... University Leadership in Urban School Renewal edited by Nancy L. Zimpher and Kenneth R. Howey. ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education, 2004. 329 pp. $42.95. ISBN 0-275-98095-2 PAMELA L. EDDY, Central Michigan University Nancy Zimpher,...