Journal of Higher Education articles from May 2001

Journal of Higher Education archives from May 2001

Student Persistence in a Public Higher Education System.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences The past two decades witnessed some fundamental changes in American postsecondary educational finance (McPherson & Schapiro, 1991, 1998; Orfield, 1992; St. John, 1994; Slaughter & Leslie, 1997)....

Institutional Effectiveness of Women-Only Colleges.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Cultivating Students' Desire to Influence Social Conditions Very few higher education professionals would be surprised to hear that the number of women-only colleges in the United States and their student enrollment declined dramatically...

Student Trust and Its Antecedents in Higher Education.
May 1, 2001... Introduction The Problem In the last two decades, the higher education environment has undergone drastic changes. The U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) reports that enrollments declined between 1992 and 1995,...

Departmental Factors Affecting Time-to-Degree and Completion Rates of Doctoral Students at One Land-Grant Research Institution.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Time to doctoral degree has increased consistently in American universities since 1967, in some fields by as much as two years. Although time to degree varies systematically by field of study, in general, the median time spent enrolled as...

A Professional Professoriate: Unionization, Bureaucratization, and the AAUP.(Review)
May 1, 2001... by Philo A. Hutcheson. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. 312pp. $23.95 Inasmuch as it is the premier national higher education faculty organization, the AAUP should have spawned more scholarly attention than it has. Richard...

Financing a College Education: How It Works, How It's Changing.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Financing a College Education. How It Works, How It's Changing, edited by Jacqueline E. King. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999. 194+ pp. $34.95 The rising cost of college and how to pay for it has received much attention in recent years, both...

The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists-Their Passions and Professions.(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists-Their Passions and Professions, by Joseph C. Hermanowicz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 268 pp. $45.00 ($15.00) A great deal has been written about how people choose particular...

Electronic Collaborators: Learner-centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Electronic Collaborators: Learner-centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse, edited by Curtis Jay Bonk and Kira S. King. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998. 408pp. $99.95 ($49.95) A great deal of magical thinking...

Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, by Robert A. Rhoads. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. (Paper ed., 2000. 3l2pp. $16.95) Practitioners and scholars in higher education cannot help but...

Honored but Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Honored but Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges, edited by W. Norton Grubb & Associates. New York: Routledge, 1999. 368+ pp. $75.00 ($24.99) In this era of renewed attention to teaching, community colleges are often...

Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make, by Don Hossler, Jack Schmit, and Nick Vesper. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 161+ pp. $45.00 ($18.95) Before...