Three investigations assessed how concurrent emphases on the intrinsic value of learning and the importance of grades affect college student and instructor views of themselves and of one another. Results suggest that students and instructors have compatible learning and grade orientation ideals, but that current grading practices adversely affect…

Explores the adoption and use of Native American-related nicknames and symbols by three U.S. universities: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Miami University of Ohio, and Eastern Michigan University. Historical case studies review how the nicknames were chosen, how they evolved, and why the decision either to keep or replace the…

A survey of all female employees (n=446) and a sample of students (n=319) at a southeastern university with a published policy regarding sexual harassment found 19-43 percent of female staff, faculty, administrators, and students had experienced sexual harassment. Reported perpetrators were most often other employees (by employees), other students…

Examined the influence of faculty active-learning practices on student departure decisions in the context of Tinto's Theory of College Student Departure. Path analysis results of three surveys of 718 first-time, full-time, first-year students at a highly selective private research university found that active learning exerts statistically reliable…

This study used a social network paradigm to examine college student integration of 329 college freshmen at a private liberal arts college. Analysis of the structural aspects of students' on-campus associations found differential effects of various social network characteristics on student commitment and persistence. (DB)

Review of historical data does not support claims of colleges and universities that compliance with Title IX (1972) has led to financial strains in operation of intercollegiate athletic programs or that self-regulation makes federal guidelines an unreasonable and unnecessary intrusion into institutional autonomy. Focuses on the Brown vs. Cohen…

Discussion of trends in the accountability movement in higher education considers accountability versus autonomy, effects of massification, limitations of public expenditures, measuring institutional performance in the United States and United Kingdom, emerging performance-based reforms, and commonalities among performance-based systems. Notes…

Identifies 10 characteristics of stable systems of performance funding for public colleges and universities based on a survey of state and campus policymakers in 9 of the 10 states with performance funding in 1996. Respondents agreed on the importance of careful choice of performance indicators, recognition of the difficulty of measuring higher…

Examined changes in amounts of time faculty spent in teaching, advising, and research activities over the past 20 years. Found institutions are becoming more similar in their patterns of faculty time allocation, particularly regarding time spend on research. However, time spent advising and interacting informally with students appears to be…

Discusses the scholarship of teaching as a process comprised of reflection on experience-based knowledge and research-based knowledge on teaching. Concepts of content, process, and premise reflection are used to derive three domains of knowledge about teaching--instructional, pedagogical, and curricular. Concludes that scholarship in teaching is…

Responses of 179 representatives of diverse institutions of higher education to a questionnaire on institutionalization of service learning found greater institutionalization occurred when institutions established a centralized office to coordinate activities, funded that office with university funds, located it under the chief academic office,…

Reports results of a survey of 360 chief academic officers at member institutions of the American Association of Colleges and Universities regarding their policies and practices for assisting dual-career couples. Examines the motivations, barriers, consequences, and policy implications of institutional responses to dual-career couples. (DB)

Examines the current status of "corporate colleges," accredited degree-granting institutions sponsored by corporations during the 1970s and 1980s; notes that only 5 of 26 institutions survive. Reasons for their decline include the tendency of corporations to focus attention and resources on core businesses and to "outsource" corporate education;…

Investigation of student participation in 26 liberal arts and sciences courses at a public university revealed that the amount of participation increased from introductory to upper-division classes, that traditional-age students lagged behind nontraditional students in participation, and that upper-level students participate differently than…

Reviews two books concerned with sexual harassment in higher education: (1) "Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Guide for Administrators, Faculty, and Students," edited by Bernice R. Sandler and Robert J. Shoop; and (2) "Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Reflections and New Perspectives, by Billie Wright Dziech and Michael W. Hawkins. Calls the…