Journal of Higher Education articles from March 1996

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 1996

The role of perceptions of prejudice and discrimination on the adjustment of minority students to college.
March 1, 1996... College participation by minority students declined in the middle 1980s following a period of sustained growth [21]. This trend was particularly evident among African Americans and Hispanics [46] who exhibited both the lowest participation...

Betrayed by the academy: the sexual harassment of women college faculty.
March 1, 1996... Sexual harassment has long been a hidden problem in society and on college campuses, and one that betrays the idyllic image of faculty and students working together on intellectual endeavors. Writing a decade ago, Dziech and Weiner argued that...

Influences on students' openness to diversity and challenge in the first year of college.
March 1, 1996... It appears clear that diversity comprises a central aspect of America's future. According to a 1989 Census Bureau projection, during the next four decades (1990-2030), the white population of the United States will grow by about...

Economics or education: the establishment of American land-grant universities.
March 1, 1996... In the United States, institutions of public higher education exist in an environment characterized by constrained resources and shifting interests on the part of students and other clienteles. Parents and politicians are demanding that public...

Implementing service learning in higher education.
March 1, 1996... In a recent article, "Creating the New American College," Ernest Boyer challenges higher education to reconsider its mission to be that of educating students for a life as responsible citizens, rather than educating students solely for a...

The Calculus of Intimacy: A Teaching Life.
March 1, 1996... By Richard Murphy, Jr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. 191 + pp. $29.50 REVIEWED BY DOROTHY E. FINNEGAN, The College of William and Mary Good practice dictates that friends do not review the writings of their familiars....

We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University.
March 1, 1996... By David Damrosch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.225 pp. $32.50 ($15.95) REVIEWED BY HRAD L. MITCHELL, The Ohio State University Strange but wonderful things can happen when you mix poetry, politics, and paradox,...