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Journal of Higher Education articles from May 2008
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Journal of Higher Education archives from May 2008
A typology of federal and state programs designed to promote college enrollment.
May 1, 2008... Over the past four decades, policymakers have developed numerous policies and programs with the goal of increasing college enrollment. A simple Google search of the phrase "college access program" generates 226,000,000 hits. Entering the same...
Explaining increases in higher education costs.
May 1, 2008... Introduction
The real cost of higher education per full-time equivalent student has grown substantially over the last 75 years, and the rapid rise since the early 1980s is a cause of considerable public concern. Opinion surveys...
The transition to independent research: who makes it, who doesn't, and why.
May 1, 2008... The main purpose of doctoral training is "to prepare a student for a lifetime of intellectual inquiry that manifests itself in creative scholarship and research" (Council of Graduate Schools, 1977, cited in Bargar & Duncan, 1982, p. 1)....
"What's too much and what's too little?": the process of becoming an independent researcher in doctoral education.
May 1, 2008...
The student is urged to be independent in scholarly endeavor. Training
an individual to be independent in an authoritarian social structure
has a potential paradoxical quality that is not always recognized by
the agent. In effect,...
The Law of Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making (4th ed., 2 vols.).(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Law of Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making (4th ed., 2 vols.), by William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. ISBN 0787970948 (vol. 1), 0787986569 (vol....
Faculty Career Paths: Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Faculty Career Paths: Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction, by G. M. Bataille and B. E. Brown. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. ISBN 0-275-98748-5.
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Gravois, 2006) reported...
Letters to a Young Academic.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Letters to a Young Academic, by Guy R. McPherson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 163 pp. ISBN 1578863384.
This short book of personal reflections and advice includes edited versions of 20 letters originally written to the author's...
Remaking the American University: Market Smart and Mission Centered.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Remaking the American University: Market Smart and Mission Centered by Robert Zemsky, Gregory Wegner, and William Massey. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 232 pp. Cloth $24.95. ISBN 0-8135-3624-3.
In Remaking the American...
African American Men in College.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... African American Men in College, edited by Michael J. Cuyjet. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-7879-6460-3.
Nationally, African American male students hold the lowest college completion rate (32.8%) among both sexes and...