Journal of Higher Education articles from May 1999

Journal of Higher Education archives from May 1999

Toward a constructivist framework for guiding change and innovation in higher education.
May 1, 1999... Introduction The authors of Exploiting Information Systems in Higher Education: An Issues Paper (JISC, 1995) identify several trends that will characterize higher education in the next decade: greater competition for funds and students;...

Knowledge production, publication productivity, and intimate academic partnerships.
May 1, 1999... Collaboration and engagement in a community of scholars is instrumental to scholarly productivity, particularly among prolific scholars who sustain a commitment to scholarly research and writing over the course of many years (Austin & Baldwin,...

Changes in the endowment spending of private colleges in the early 1990s.
May 1, 1999... Introduction In recent years, as many colleges have struggled to contain rising expenditures and to raise revenues to meet those expenditures, a bright aspect of their financial condition has been sharp increases in the market value of...

Faculty and administrators' attitudes toward potential conflicts of interest, commitment, and equity in university-industry relationships.
May 1, 1999... In the 1940s the federal government began awarding grants and contracts for significant amounts of money to academic researchers who pursued paths of national as well as scholarly interest (Smith, 1990). During the post-World War II years, the...

Universities and Their Leadership.(Review)
May 1, 1999... edited by William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 258 pp. $29.95. GEORGE KELLER, Baltimore, Maryland In March of 1996, the 250th anniversary of the founding of Princeton University (as...