Journal of Higher Education articles from March 1999

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 1999

A memo from Machiavelli.(Nicolo Machiavelli)
March 1, 1999... TO: Presidents, Senior Administrators, and Faculty Leaders Who Would Seek Change FROM: Niccolo Machiavelli, Former Assistant to Presidents, University of the Medici Permit me to take a brief moment of your valuable time to introduce...

Campus racial climate and the adjustment of students to college: a comparison between white students and African-American students.
March 1, 1999... Benefits associated with a college degree are multiple. From a societal standpoint, a college graduate is far less likely to commit a crime and approximately 30% less likely to be unemployed compared to a student who has simply earned a...

Gender and the stratification of colleges.
March 1, 1999... It has been twenty-five years since the United States Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which banned discrimination in education based on sex (Chamberlain, 1988).(1) Since that time, women have made substantial...

Faculty conduct: an empirical study of ethical activism.
March 1, 1999... In the last ten years or so, the academic profession has been the subject of a good deal of suspicion and criticism. While some of what has been written about academics is shallow and splenetic (Sykes, 1990; Kimball, 1990; D'Souza, 1991), even...

Academic integrity in honor code and non-honor code environments: a qualitative investigation.
March 1, 1999... Academic dishonesty on college campuses has been the subject of much research in recent years. Studies have generally used survey techniques to test theories about the individual and contextual characteristics that are thought to influence...