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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Chun, Edna; Evans, Alvin – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2009
In this monograph, the authors focus on concrete approaches and tools that will assist educational leaders and educators in the creation of a genuinely inclusive campus culture. The first chapter, "The Changing Landscape and the Compelling Need for Diversity," provides an overview of forces that have historically inhibited the inclusion of women…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Institutional Mission, Diversity (Institutional)
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Kinser, Kevin, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2006
This volume has four main goals. The first is to establish a historical perspective on the development of the for-profit sector in the United States. In most contemporary writing, the phenomenon is treated with only cursory attention to the antecedents of the institutions seen today. Although much is new about the current era, much is familiar,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Proprietary Schools, Educational History, Federal Regulation
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Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr., Ed.; Martinez, Ruben O., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2006
This monograph examines and discusses the context for diversity leadership roles and practices in higher education by using research and theoretical and applied literatures from a variety of fields, including the social sciences, business, and higher education. Framing the discussion on leadership in this monograph is the perspective that American…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Leadership, Organizational Theories
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Estler, Suzanne E., Ed.; Nelson, Laurie J., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2005
This monograph seeks, through a synthesis of existing literature, to understand better how external forces operating through an enterprise on the academic margins can lead institutions and their leaders to make decisions that appear to many observers to make little sense relative to the institution's mission. Through the athletics enterprise, the…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Institutional Mission, Decision Making, Intercollegiate Cooperation