Journal of Higher Education articles from March 1995

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 1995

The other curriculum: out-of-class experiences associated with student learning and personal development.
March 1, 1995... 33. Light, R. J. The Harvard Assessment Seminars: Explorations with Students and Faculty about Teaching, Learning, and Student Life (second report). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Kennedy School of...

An alternative to net price: assessing the influence of prices and subsidies on within-year persistence.
March 1, 1995... The theory of net price, as it applies to student demand for higher education, has become a problematic concept for administrators and policy makers. On the one hand, economic theory on higher education holds that students respond to a single net...

Rising administrative costs: seeking explanations. (higher education)
March 1, 1995... By essentially any measure, administrative costs in colleges and universities have risen dramatically during the past two decades, disproportionately more than the costs of instruction and research. Accelerating a four-decade pattern,...

U.S. women in science and engineering, 1960-1990: progress toward equity?
March 1, 1995... In 1960 I entered kindergarten in a public school in suburban Massachusetts. Twenty-seven years later, I left school with a Ph.D. in molecular biology. By 1990, the final year of this study, I had decided to end my career as a research scientist....

Reflective Faculty Evaluation: Enhancing Teaching and Determining Faculty Effectiveness.
March 1, 1995... It is hard to imagine a more widely known and respected name in the field of evaluation in higher education than John Centra. His contributions over the years have been enormously important in helping non-specialists make sense of the sometimes...

Tools for Teaching.
March 1, 1995... Each year several students ask if I permit auditors in my course on college teaching. They tell me that other students recommend the course but that their advisors will not permit them to spend a unit of graduate credit to take something outside...

Better Teaching, More Learning: Strategies for Success in Postsecondary Settings.
March 1, 1995... Between Principle and Practice There Falls a Shadow Better Teaching, More Learning will certainly gladden the hearts of most research psychologists by its calm assertion that "a knowledge base [for a technology of learning] exists and is there...

Strengthening Adult and Continuing Education: A Global Perspective on Synergistic Leadership.
March 1, 1995... Alan Knox is convinced that it is no longer appropriate for adult education agencies to rely on delivering programs to individual adults through individual units; instead, he would have them provide "synergistic leadership" rooted in the...

Academia and the Luster of Capital.
March 1, 1995... There are three major themes one can glean from this book: one about the bourgeois orientation of faculty members within the academy; another about the connection between criticism and historicism and their intellectual place in the academy; and...