This volume contains nine papers on higher education theory and research. They include: (1) "Technology Transfer from Universities" (Irwin Feller); (2) "State Policy and Private Higher Education: Past, Present and Future" (William Zumeta); (3) "Appraising Tinto's Theory of College Student Departure" (John M. Braxton et al.); (4) "A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Approach to Studying College Effects" (Corinna A. Ethington); (5) "The Cost-Effectiveness of American Higher Education: The United States Can Afford Its Colleges and Universities" (Jeffery E. Olson); (6) "A Secondary Analysis of Claims Regarding the Reflective Judgment Interview: Internal Consistency, Sequentiality, and Intra-Individual Differences in Ill-Structured Problem-Solving" (Phillip K. Wood); (7) "Student Learning and Cognitive Development in the Community College" (Richard A. Voorhees); (8) "What Discourages Research-Practitioners in Faculty Development?" (Bob Boice); and (9) "McCarthyism and the Professoriate: A Historiographic Nightmare?" (Philo A. Hutcheson). Individual papers contain references. Includes author and subject indexes and a list of the contents of previous volumes in the series. (JLS)