Journal of Higher Education articles from November 1996

Journal of Higher Education archives from November 1996

The implications of teaching norms for the improvement of undergraduate education.
November 1, 1996... Undergraduate education in our colleges and universities continues to gain considerable attention from a number of groups - state legislatures, students, national associations, faculty, administrators, and parents. Consequently, studies by...

Reorganizing the faculty workforce for flexibility: part-time professional labor.
November 1, 1996... Part-time Professional Labor In the United States the rise of the academic profession in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was marked by the establishment of faculty as full-time employees of colleges and universities with career...

First encounters of the bureaucratic kind: early freshman experiences with a campus bureaucracy.
November 1, 1996... As the dominant organizational form in our society [17], bureaucracy provides the framework within which much everyday activity takes place [38], shaping and constraining the behavior of most everyone [10, 25]. Learning to operate in a...

Study strategies have meager support: a review with recommendations for implementation.
November 1, 1996... Introduction Study skills instruction in higher education has become increasingly popular in the past decade. Many universities and colleges have developed short courses to teach study skills, established learning resource centers, instituted...

Faculty at Work: Motivation, Expectation, Satisfaction.
November 1, 1996... GERHARD SONNERT, Harvard University A sense of crisis pervades academe. Critics have accused American faculty, for instance, of tenure-induced laziness, of producing increasingly useless or worthless knowledge, and in extreme cases, of...

The Research University in a Time of Discontent.
November 1, 1996... EDWARD J. HACKETT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The U.S. research university is in crisis, as it has been many times before, but this volume gives us confidence that reports of its imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. Academic life has...