Journal of Higher Education articles from July 2006

Journal of Higher Education archives from July 2006

When post-tenure review policy and practice diverge: making the case for congruence.
July 1, 2006... Is there anyone in the academy who has not heard some apocryphal anecdote about the professor who used the same old yellowed lecture notes for decades, slept through every department meeting, or never published anything after being tenured?...

Teaching awards: what do they award?
July 1, 2006... Coveted at many liberal arts institutions yet sometimes termed "the kiss of death" at research institutions, teaching awards have become a standard feature of the reward system at most colleges and universities. Although their effects have not...

State higher education spending and the tax revolt.
July 1, 2006... Government subsidization of public higher education primarily is a function of the states. Even today, with budgets emerging from crisis, the states provide over four dollars of support for higher education expenses for every dollar of federal...

Mandated openness in public higher education: a field study of state sunshine laws and institutional governance.
July 1, 2006... A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own Governors must...

Chilly classrooms for female undergraduate students: a question of method?
July 1, 2006... One outgrowth of research on classrooms has been a growing body of scholarship documenting differential treatment that may disadvantage girls and women in coeducational settings. Among the most influential and widely cited of these studies is...

Flagships, feeders, and the Texas top 10% law: a test of the "brain drain" hypothesis.
July 1, 2006... Affirmative action came under assault during the mid 1990s with the passage of Proposition 209 in California, the 1996 Hopwood v. University of Texas decision in Texas, and the enactment of Initiative 200 in Washington. In response to the...

Old Main: Small Colleges in Twenty-First Century America.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Old Main: Small Colleges in Twenty-First Century America by Samuel Schuman. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 271 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-8092-0 As an alumnus of a small liberal arts college, this title...

Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year by James M. Lang. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 248 pp. Cloth $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-8102-1; Paper $18.00, ISBN 0-8018-8103-X. The diversity among U.S....

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books by Azar Nafisi. New York: Random House, 2003. To read Azar Nafisi's elegantly crafted Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is to enter two worlds simultaneously: life in the university...