Journal of Higher Education articles from September 1998

Journal of Higher Education archives from September 1998

Are standardized tests fair to African Americans?
September 1, 1998... Predictive Validity of the SAT in Black and White Institutions The controversy over whether standardized tests like the SAT and the ACT are fair to ethnic minorities continues to rage. There is considerable opinion that standardized tests are...

Alternative models of professorial roles: new languages to reimagine faculty work.
September 1, 1998... How should faculty members think about their work? I believe that language is the key to thinking about faculty roles, because language shapes images of faculty, limits what we can think about them, and creates legitimacy for the chosen images....

Racial and marital status differences in faculty pay.
September 1, 1998... Introduction During the 1960s and early 1970s a series of affirmative action initiatives were passed in the United States to help ensure that workers would not be treated unfairly based on their personal characteristics, such as gender and...

Gender-based differences in perception of experiences in higher education: gaining a broader perspective.
September 1, 1998... The question of the adequacy of educational experiences for women is again coming to the fore in policy discussions in America. In the last few years the mass media have reported on the ongoing debates regarding potential trends in public schools...

Moving beyond black achiever isolation: experiences of gifted black collegians.
September 1, 1998... Those who seek to understand the experiences of Black students on White campuses in the United States have far more information available to them at the close of the twentieth century than could have ever been imagined at the beginning. Because...

The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education.
September 1, 1998... By Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 143+ pp. $29.95 REVIEWED BY EDWARD P. ST. JOHN, Indiana University College affordability, along with other issues related to the public...

Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity.
September 1, 1998... By Patricia M. McDonough. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 174 pp. $50.00 ($16.95) REVIEWED BY DON HOSSLER, Indiana University, Bloomington During the past twenty-five years, there has been a growing interest in both attracting and retaining...

Service-Learning: Applications from the Research.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Alan S. Waterman. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. 192 pp. $45.00 ($22.50) REVIEWED BY SUSAN R. JONES, The Ohio State University Renewed scholarly interest in the research and practice of service-learning and community service programs...