Journal of Higher Education articles from September 2006

Journal of Higher Education archives from September 2006

Playing the board game: an empirical analysis of university trustee and corporate board interlocks.
September 1, 2006... The past decade has been marked by an increasingly entrepreneurial and commercial approach to the management and finance of postsecondary institutions (Kirp, 2003; Marginson, 1997; Pusser & Doane, 2001; Pusser, Gansnede, Gallaway & Pope, 2005;...

Greener pastures: faculty turnover intent in urban public universities.
September 1, 2006... Urban public universities have cultivated a unique position in the higher education landscape. These institutions provide access to diverse student populations, engage in applied and interdisciplinary research, and address the complex economic,...

Redesigning for collaboration in learning initiatives: an examination of four highly collaborative campuses.
September 1, 2006... Organizations are realizing the need to redesign for collaborative work based both on external challenges and pressure and on the documented benefits of working in this manner. External challenges such as difficult financial times, changing...

Organizational theory and student cheating: explanation, responses, and strategies.
September 1, 2006... Higher education literature is replete with empirical studies of patterns in self-reported cheating behaviors and with essays on the problem. Student cheating is increasingly recognized as a "corrosive problem" (Paldy, 1996) in educational...

Studying attrition and degree completion behavior among first-generation college students in the United States.
September 1, 2006... The value of higher education is evidenced in a form of governmental and societal investment. The annual differential in earnings associated with educational attainment helps federal and state governments to increase their tax revenues as the...

New evidence on college remediation.
September 1, 2006... Most American colleges and universities offer special courses for students who lack some of the reading, writing, and mathematics skills that are critical for college-level work (Roueche & Roueche, 1999). This phenomenon is known popularly as...

Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship by Kerry Ann O'Meara and R. Eugene Rice (eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. 368 pp. Hardcover $36.00. ISBN 0-7879-7920-1 In 1990, there was growing concern that...

Affirmative action: Racial preference in black and white.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Affirmative action: Racial preference in black and white by T. J. Wise. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, many supporters of those practices...

Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts by Burton R. Clark. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2004. 210 pp. Cloth $99.95. Paper $29.95. This is the second volume of Burton Clark's examination of how...