Journal of Higher Education articles from September 1996

Journal of Higher Education archives from September 1996

An alternative definition of quality of undergraduate college education: toward usable knowledge for improvement.
September 1, 1996... The 1980s saw a spate of reports focused on the improvement of the quality of undergraduate college education. Major reports included those issued by the study group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education [31], the American...

The Higher Education Act of 1992: skills, constraints, and the politics of higher education.
September 1, 1996... The 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA '92) is a case study in the consequences of an incremental and fragmented federal policy-making process. HEA '92 is important because it authorized what by now is more than three-quarters...

Action research into the quality of student learning: a paradigm for faculty development.
September 1, 1996... Quality Assurance for Teaching Higher education has been the subject of increasing criticism in recent years. Daly [12], for example, reviewed no less than thirty-seven major reports and articles from government agencies, employers, and...

The development of salary goal modeling: from regression analysis to a value-based approach.
September 1, 1996... Introduction The complex institutional issue of faculty salary equity has legal, financial, and personal ramifications [2, 10, 22, 29]. Of course, any effective faculty reward system should be part of an institution's strategic planning...

Staying in college: moderations of the relation between intention and institutional departure.
September 1, 1996... Introduction The present study tests hypotheses pertaining to moderators of the relation between intention and institutional departure. The hypotheses are derived from a review of the literature on college student departure, the theory of...

American Higher Education: A History.
September 1, 1996... American higher education has long outpaced the rest of the world in the number of its institutions (some thirty-five hundred), students (14.2 million), and faculty (about 2 million), in the age participation ratio (over half the relevant age...

Higher Education and Corporate Realities: Class, Culture, and the Decline of Graduate Careers.
September 1, 1996... JOHN S. HEYWOOD, United of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Birmingham Two fundamental changes in Great Britain (and, indeed, mirrored in the United States) suggest increasing opportunities for those often excluded from professional and...