ERIC Number: ED308758
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 928
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ISBN: ISBN-0-87586-080-XISBN-0-87586-086-9
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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volumes III [and] IV.
Smart, John C., Ed.
Two volumes of a handbook on theory and research in higher education are presented. The 11 papers included in Volume III are as follows: "Qualitative Research Methods in Higher Education" (R. Crowson); "Bricks and Mortar: Architecture and the Study of Higher Education" (J. Thelin and J. Yankovich); "Enrollment Demand Models and Their Policy Uses in Institutional Decision Making" (W. Weiler); "State Regulation and Campus Autonomy" (J. F. Volkwein); "Administrative Leadership in Higher Education" (C. Fincher); "Department Reviews for Product Improvement in Higher Education" (E. Wilson); "Diversity in University Governance: Attitudes, Structure, and Satisfaction" (D. Whetten and K. Bettenhausen); "The Influence of College on Moral Development" (L. Nucci and E. Pascarella); "An Analysis of Student Academic Rights" (D. Young and M. Braswell); "The Expansion of Higher Education Enrollments in Agrarian and Developing Areas of the Third World" (W. Maxwell); and "The Organization and Provision of Continuing Professional Education: A Critical Review and Synthesis" (R. Cervero and W. Young). The nine papers in Volume IV are: "The College Environment Revisited: A Review of Research and Theory" (L. Baird); "Outcomes, Assessment, and Academic Improvement: In Search of Usable Knowledge (P. Ewell); "Higher Education and Work in Europe" (U. Teichler); "Fiction to Fact: College Novels and the Study of Higher Education" (J. Thelin and B. Townsend); "Strategy and Resources: Economic Issues in Strategic Planning and Management in Higher Education" (J. Hearn); "Faculty Vitality: Context, Concerns, and Prospects" (S. Clark and D. Lewis); "Faculty Participation in Strategic Policy Making" (D. Dill and K. Helm); "The Conceptual Foundations of Organizational Culture" (K. Cameron and D. Ettington); and "Graduate Education as an Area of Research in the Field of Higher Education" (G. Malaney). (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Educational Economics, Educational Theories, Enrollment Trends, Faculty College Relationship, Foundations of Education, Governance, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Institutional Survival, Leadership, Moral Development, Outcomes of Education, Policy Formation, Professional Continuing Education, Research Methodology, State Standards, Student Rights
Agathon Press, Inc., 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 ($48.00, Vol III; $54.00, Vol IV).
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Books
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Language: English
Sponsor: Association for Institutional Research.; Association for the Study of Higher Education.
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