Journal of Higher Education articles from September 2001

Journal of Higher Education archives from September 2001

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Does It Promote Student Learning? Since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Higher Education Act of 1965, America's colleges and universities have struggled to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of their students and...

Modeling Supply and Demand for Arts and Sciences Faculty.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... What Ten Years of Data Tell Us About the Labor Market Projections of Bowen and Sosa Introduction: Labor Market Models, Data, and Critiques In 1989 William Bowen and Julie Sosa published Prospects for Faculty in the Arts & Sciences,...

How Much Do Students Learn in College?(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Cross-Sectional Estimates Using the College BASE Introduction What students learn during the undergraduate years in postsecondary education has been the focus of a large body of inquiry for the past 30 years (e.g., Bowen, 1977;...

The Relationship Between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status Among College and University Faculty.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Although the participation of mothers in the labor force is viewed more favorably now than in the past, a substantial proportion of American workers continue to believe that women should focus their efforts on the home (Bond, Galinsky, &...

The Role of Faculty in Assessing Colleagues' Teaching The Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Role of Faculty in Assessing Colleagues' Teaching The Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook, by Nancy Van Note Chism. Bolton, MA: Anker, 1999. 141 PP., $24.95 (paper) For well over twenty years, peer review of college teaching has been...

Enhancing Student Learning: Setting the Campus Context.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Enhancing Student Learning: Setting the Campus Context, edited by Frances K. Stage, Lemuel W. Watson, and Melvin Terrell. University Press of America, 1999. 145 PP. $24.00 (paper). Stage, Watson, and Terrell's primary aim in Enhancing...

Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, by Robert C. Dickeson. Foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 192 pp. $34.95. Stanley Ikenberry says that there...

Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe, by Judith Glazer-Raymo. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 208+ pp. $38.00 In Shattering the Myths, the author uses feminist perspectives to analyze gender representation in...