Journal of Higher Education articles from March 2001

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 2001

Higher Education's Social Role.
March 1, 2001... Introduction to a JHE Special Issue Higher education's role in society has changed and evolved, matching the trends and emphases of public life. Usually reacting, but sometimes initiating change, colleges and universities have been shaped...

Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University.
March 1, 2001... Should the American research university have a strategy for renewing its civic mission in a diverse democratic society and, if so, what should it be? Many American research universities were established with a civic mission to prepare...

The Dynamic Tensions of Service Learning in Higher Education.
March 1, 2001... A Philosophical Perspective Senior faculty in a peace and justice program at a small liberal arts college reject the efforts of a student affairs professional to help the faculty connect their teaching to practice through service...

Influences on Students' Openness to Diversity and Challenge in the Second and Third Years of College.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... This will come off snobby, but it's not racial. I am not a racist. I have black friends, my friends date black people. But I don't want to go to a diverse school. I wanted to be at a school like this. If you want to go to a diverse university,...

A University Helps Prepare Low Income Youths for College.
March 1, 2001... Tracking School Success Introduction Over the last decade various programs that have helped boost enrollment in higher education have come under attack or have been eliminated. One response to the problem of maintaining access to...

The Complex Relations Between the Academy and Industry.
March 1, 2001... Views from the Literature The attention of the popular press and other media is drawn to universities, as to other institutions, when something goes wrong. As the press produces more articles and news stories about connections between...

Colleges and Universities as Citizens.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Colleges and Universities as Citizens, edited by Robert G. Bringle, Richard Games, and Reverend Edward A. Malloy. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1999. 210 pp. $28.00 Colleges and Universities as Citizens is a welcome and timely volume...

Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities, by William G. Tierney. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. 171+ pp. (Paper $21.95) This is the second book in about as many years by author William...

Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives & The Globalization of Higher Education.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jan Currie and Janice Newsom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. 277 pp. $62.00 ($29.95) The Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Peter Scott. Buckingham,...

Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?(Review)
March 1, 2001... Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? By Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 352 pp. $28.95 Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? by Vanderbilt University researchers Janet Eyler and Dwight Giles,...

Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel, by James D. Savage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 234+ pp. $49.95 (19.95) "A Boom in Academic Pork" the front-page headlines of...

No Neutral Ground: Standing by the Values We Prize in Higher Education.(Review)
March 1, 2001... No Neutral Ground: Standing by the Values We Prize in Higher Education, by Robert B. Young. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, 246 pp. $34.95 As members of the academy-students, faculty, professional staff, administrators, presidents, and...