Journal of Higher Education articles from September 2004

Journal of Higher Education archives from September 2004

Understanding the decision to enroll in graduate school: sex and racial/ethnic group differences.
September 1, 2004... Women continue to receive fewer doctoral and first-professional degrees than men, even though women receive more bachelor's degrees. The underrepresentation of women holds even after allowing for time to complete an advanced degree. For...

What do college students have to lose? Exploring the outcomes of differences in person-environment fits.
September 1, 2004... This article continues a series of analyses using the "theory of careers" developed by John Holland (1966, 1973, 1985, 1997) to examine the patterns of student stability and change inherent in the college experience--as part of an effort to...

Collaborators' attitudes about differences of opinion.
September 1, 2004... "There is no knowing without conflict." Parker Palmer, 1988 Until the advent of postmodernism and with it the recognition that knowledge is socially constructed, innovation and creativity were most commonly portrayed as the product of...

Symbolic politics and institutional boundaries in curriculum reform: the case of National Sectarian University.
September 1, 2004... Introduction In recent years, many colleges and universities have set out to reform or revisit their general education curricula. These efforts often have failed to achieve the comprehensive change that reformers originally had envisioned...

Steal This University.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Steal This University edited by Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh, and Kevin Mattson. Boston: Routledge, 2003. 272 pages. Cloth $75.00. Paper $18.95. ISBN 0-41593482-4. The anthology, Steal This University (Routledge, 2003), provides a...

Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education by William F. Massy. Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2003. 388 pages. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 1-882982-56-8. William F. Massy's goal for Honoring the Trust: Quality and...

Andrea Guerrero, Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Andrea Guerrero, Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 262 pp, cloth $49.95, paperback, $19.95 The University of California, the premier system of public higher...