Used population projection methods to show how the age and sex structure of a field can severely limit women's representation in tenure-track and full professor positions. Results illustrate the difficulties researchers face when they use data on representation to assess levels of discrimination against women in hiring and promotion. (EV)

Examined quality of faculty worklife, morale, and intentions to leave at the individual and institutional levels, and as they relate to each other and operate within or between faculty groups. Found that quality of faculty worklife matters most to morale, and level of morale most to the intent to leave at the individual level. (EV)

Examined how students' enrollment responses to college costs--both in college choice and persistence decisions--vary by social class. Found substantial class-based patterns of enrollment behavior in response to prematriculation perceptions of college costs and actual postmatriculation costs, consistently restricting postsecondary opportunities for…

Adopted a decision/action rationality framework to explore the criteria used to close academic programs at four universities. Findings suggested that decisions are based upon criteria other than those usually stated (e.g., cost, quality, and centrality), and that process leads to criteria generation. (EV)

Submits survey instruments on college student development used by Tinto, Astin, and Pace to five probes from recent social theory--voice, power, authenticity, self-reflexivity, and reconstitution--and proposes a shift in focus in student development research from essentialized categories like culture and race to relation and learning "between"…

Asserting that graduation and stopout are "competing" or correlated events and that they often should be modeled as such, this study demonstrated that factors affecting timely graduation (e.g., financial aid) often have time-varying effects, and that ignoring these time-varying effects can lead to spurious conclusions that may result in…

Examined the role of faculty of color in expanding notions of scholarship in academe. Found that the value orientation that faculty of color bring to the academy distinguishes their greater involvement in, and support of, activities reflective of Boyer's scholarship of discovery, teaching, integration, and application. (EV)

Following from the Hattie and Marsh (1996) meta-analysis, examined the correlation between research productivity and teaching effectiveness at an Australian university. Found further evidence of no correlation, supporting the hypothesis that teaching and research excellence are independent constructs. (EV)

Developed the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ) to measure the extent to which Australian Ph.D. and postgraduate students are satisfied with their research supervision. Evaluated the usefulness of these student evaluations for benchmarking across universities and disciplines. Found that the evaluations did not vary…

A case study of South Dakota's higher education system was used to examine the applicability of a higher education systems framework (Richardson, Reeves-Branco, Callan, & Finney, 1999) to a new case-study state. Found that while the framework helped in describing and analyzing the case study, challenges arose when considering individual components…

A case study of San Jose State University examined how changes in what counts as knowledge are reflected in universities' academic structure. Found that the multidimensionality of academic structure, with bureaucratic (departmental) structure relatively fixed and programmatic (degree program) structure relatively open, enables universities to…

This article critically analyses administrative searches through the experiences and perspectives of candidates and search committee chairs at a predominantly white university. A model of filtering is advanced that describes how candidates are included and excluded and how the perspectives and consequences differ for black female, black male,…

Sociocultural theories of learning provide an analytical lens for exploring faculty work. By conceptualizing faculty work as a learning process that is both cognitive and social, sociocultural perspectives highlight the ways in which faculty learning and work are enabled and shaped by the contexts in which they occur, but also how learning and…

Analysis of interview and classroom observation data collected through four institutional case studies reveals some consistent findings regarding how writing assignments and class discussions can be made conducive to critical thinking development. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)

Student participation in discussion in traditional delivery and interactive college telecourses are compared. Results indicate that the norm of the consolidation of responsibility continues to prevail in traditional classroom discussion: a few students were responsible for the majority of interactions. However, in telecourses students frequently…