Journal of Higher Education articles from May 1995

Journal of Higher Education archives from May 1995

Paths to success: factors related to the impact of women's colleges.
May 1, 1995... As the most prestigious exclusively male colleges and universities began to admit women in the 1970s and early 1980s, many women's colleges also became coeducational. Simultaneously, a significant number of women's colleges closed due to...

Women and minority faculty job satisfaction: professional role interests, professional satisfactions, and institutional fit.
May 1, 1995... Introduction Demographic predictions of an increasingly female-and minority-based work force have reinvigorated interest within the academy in recruiting qualified women and minority members into its professional ranks. According to the Hudson...

Gender, beliefs, and achievement in remedial college-level mathematics.
May 1, 1995... Introduction Although the topic of student participation in mathematics has received attention in the higher education literature [for example, 1, 4, 14, 36], most such studies involve the analysis of trends and national data sets. Despite...

Influence of social interaction on cognition: connected learning in science.
May 1, 1995... That many women avoid science is clear. Less clear, however, are explanations for this phenomenon. In the past decade, researchers have looked for causes first by grappling with the question: What's wrong with women that they don't like science?...

The dispersion of academic research in the 1980s.
May 1, 1995... Growth and dispersion were prominent features of the U.S. academic research system during the 1980s. Total academic R&D expenditures grew from $6.9 billion to $12.5 billion (1982$); dispersion occurred as the share of total research performed by...

Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise.
May 1, 1995... There are numerous contemporary books about the failings of higher education and the universities: the rampant confusion in liberal and general education, the excesses and lack of accountability in faculty behavior, the potential threat to...

Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists.
May 1, 1995... This completely charming collection of essays recounts the experiences of women who were graduate students in Berkeley's sociology department during its golden years, 1952 to 1972. Launched in 1948, the department ranked first nationwide by 1964,...