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Direct linkTwombly, Susan B.; Salisbury, Mark H.; Tumanut, Shannon D.; Klute, Paul – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2012
This review seeks to answer two central questions: (1) who studies abroad (or who does not) and why? and (2) what are the outcomes of studying abroad? Participation in study abroad and outcomes of study abroad must be considered in context. Consequently, who participates and the expected outcomes are framed by the reality that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Context Effect
Drezner, Noah D. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2011
This monograph examines the philanthropic contributions of individuals through the existing literature and proposes future philanthropic and fundraising research that can help fill the theoretical void in the literature, thereby improving future research and fundraising in higher education. It covers the major approaches, topics, and theories…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Fund Raising, Private Financial Support, Ethnic Diversity
Walpole, MaryBeth, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2007
This volume examines conceptual frameworks and models that flow from scholars' definitions and operationalizations of social class: status attainment theory, human capital theory, the financial nexus model, Bourdieuian theory, and critical race theory. Since students often have multiple social locations that affect their educational process, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Definitions
Cantor, Jeffrey A., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2006
An old adage--the truly educated never graduate--has come to exemplify the rationale for the growth and expansion of professional continuing education (PCE) programs in the United States. This monograph is about the trends and best practices in professional continuing education. It explores how this area of higher and adult education, once the…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Higher Education, Exhibits
Hu, Shouping, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2005
College grades play important educational and social roles (Milton, Pollio, and Eison, 1986; Walvoord and Anderson, 1998). What is not well understood are the types of problems that exist in college grading practices. Conversations about grade inflation in higher education are often based on sparse anecdotal evidence and charged with value…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Higher Education, Grading, Validity
Pascarella, Ernest T., Ed.; Wolniak, Gregory C., Ed.; Seifert, Tricia A. D., Ed.; Cruce, Ty M., Ed,; Blaich, Charles F., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2005
This monograph details the results of a large, systematic study of the short- and long-term impacts of liberal arts colleges and liberal arts education using two longitudinal datasets that together contain information on more than 6,500 students and alumni from more than 40 institutions located throughout the country. The longitudinal nature of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Liberal Arts, Context Effect, Exhibits
