Journal of Higher Education articles from March 1998

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 1998

Attitude change in college students: examining the effect of college peer groups and faculty groups.
March 1, 1998... The link between reference group theory and the study of college students dates back to the initial development of the reference group concept. Though Hyman has been widely credited with first introducing the concept of reference groups in 1942,...

Models of excellence: the baccalaureate origins of successful European American women, African American women, and Latinas.
March 1, 1998... Introduction The Problem In the last two decades women have made dramatic progress in terms of access to American higher education. In 1991-92 women earned 54% of the baccalaureate degrees conferred by colleges and universities in the...

The normative structure of community college teaching: a marker of professionalism.
March 1, 1998... Although community college faculty are regarded as an identifiable occupational group (Cohen & Brawer, 1972, 1977, 1996; Palmer, 1992), the extent to which they are considered a professionalized group poses a long-standing and nettlesome problem...

Factors associated with student loan default among different racial and ethnic groups.
March 1, 1998... Introduction This is the first study that uses a nationally representative data base of student loan borrowers to examine the similarities and differences among Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics. This is an important research and policy...