Journal of Higher Education articles from March 2004

Journal of Higher Education archives from March 2004

Interrupting the usual: successful strategies for hiring diverse faculty.
March 1, 2004... Introduction Across the country, hundreds of campuses are engaged in efforts to diversify their faculties ethnically/racially, in response to both internal and external pressures. While fueled by numerous arguments related to the...

Academic Freedom and Tenure: between fiction and reality.(analysis of portrayals of academia in novels)
March 1, 2004... Perhaps no belief has been more central to academic life than that of academic freedom. In the twentieth century academic freedom became enshrined as the raison d'etre for the professorate. For many individuals, colleges and universities...

Beliefs about post-tenure review; the influence of autonomy, collegiality, career stage, and institutional context.
March 1, 2004... Introduction Post-tenure review is a hot topic in higher education these days. Critics argue that post-tenure review "dampens creativity and collegial relationships and threatens academic freedom" (AAUP, 1995, p. 49), while advocates...

Predictors of student commitment at two-year and four-year institutions.
March 1, 2004... Introduction and Need for the Study The present research examines the predictors of institutional commitment of first-year students at 28 two-year and 23 four-year public institutions. Previous research has demonstrated that institutional...

Turning the lights out: tenure in the 21st century.('The Questions of Tenure')(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Questions of Tenure by Richard P. Chait (ed). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 334pp. $35.00. One of the more vitriolic arguments those of us involved in colleges and universities have had with one another is over the...

The Idea of a Catholic University.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Idea of a Catholic University by George Dennis O'Brien. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002. 239 pp. Cloth $28.00. In The Idea of a Catholic University George Dennis O'Brien ambitiously endeavors to show that Catholic universities are...

Distance Learning: Principles for Effective Design, Delivery, and Evaluation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Distance Learning: Principles for Effective Design, Delivery, and Evaluation by Chandra Mehrotra, C. David Hollister, and Lawrence McGahey. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications, 2001. 264 pages. Cloth $80.95; Paper $37.95. Recent popular...

Creating Campus Community: In Search of Ernest Boyer's Legacy.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Creating Campus Community: In Search of Ernest Boyer's Legacy by William M. McDonald and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002. 200 pp. ISBN 0-7879-5700-3. Building a community is messy human architecture. This collection of...