Journal of Higher Education articles from March 2003

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 2003

Bridging the disciplines: interdisciplinary discourse and faculty scholarship.(Luce Seminar, Emory University)
March 1, 2003... The Luce Seminar is... almost like a hub, the spokes coming out, so many different things going on, and each one touches an important aspect of what Emory is about. I saw it as a benchmark in my intellectual development.... I don't...

Advancing the scholarship of teaching through collaborative self-study.
March 1, 2003... Many higher education institutions emphasize the importance of teaching in their mission statements. Good teaching is no longer simply a faculty member's duty; it is critical to the credibility of an institution. However, a relatively small...

The effects of part-time employment and gender on faculty earnings and satisfaction.(1993 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty)
March 1, 2003... Evidence from the NSOPF: 93 Introduction Part-time faculty have long played an important role in U.S. postsecondary education. Jacobs (1998) relates that beginning in the late Middle Ages, priests visited colleges and universities to...

Faculty perceptions of academic dishonesty: a multidimensional scaling analysis.
March 1, 2003... One need not search far for evidence that academic dishonesty is ubiquitous in our society. Indeed, newspaper accounts of cheating by students, teachers, and administrators appear on a fairly regular basis, and HBO recently premiered a movie,...

Alumni perceptions used to assess undergraduate research experience.(Undergraduate Research Program)
March 1, 2003... Introduction Along with a rapid increase in government funding for academic research in the 1960s came concerns that research activities of faculty in American universities were becoming not only increased, but separated from, and elevated...

The Uses of the University.(5th ed.)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Uses of the University, Fifth Edition, by Clark Kerr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 252 pp. $18.95. (Book Reviews) One of the hardest things for any scholar of society and its institutions to apprehend is a fundamental...

Traveling Through the Boondocks: In and Out of Academic Hierarchy.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Traveling Through the Boondocks: In and Out of Academic Hierarchy by Terry Caesar. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. 203 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-7914-4660-3 Most higher education faculty in the United States are not employed...

In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education by Dominic J. Brewer, Susan M. Gates, and Charles A. Goldman. Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001. 175 + xiii pp. $29.95 (cloth). A widely held view of...