The outstanding basic research conducted by leading U.S. universities contrasts with the institutional paralysis that limits their responses to the changing social environment. A matrix model of university organization and mission is presented and a starting point for organizational learning and change is offered. (Author/MLW)

Case studies were conducted at three universities that significantly changed the status of women faculty during the 1970s. The most frequently cited factors for this success include leadership of top administrators, pressure from women faculty, and other environmental/structural changes supporting affirmative action. (Author/MLW)

Instructional innovation is seen as an evolutionary, personal process; innovations are frequently discontinued but occasionally are adopted collectively and institutionalized. The implications of this process for instructional improvement are discussed. (Author/MLW)

A model to gauge students' levels of understanding during presentations, based on Craik's levels of cognitive processing, is proposed. Students' responses associated with each level are identified and discussed. (Author/MLW)

Marginal costs are estimated for part- and full-time students at public two-year colleges and are compared across several expenditure categories, including instruction and student services. Results indicate that part-time students typically demand fewer institutional resources. (Author/MLW)

Interaction between cognitive styles, stages of paradigm-disciplinary development, and gender stereotypes could explain underrepresentation of women in science. Because male scientists' cognitive styles were found to be related to career choice, evaluation behavior, research success, and productivity, they are also related to the position of women…

Liaisons with industry are instruments for increasing university participation in economic development. The question of whether such liaisons are consistent with other academic missions, especially undergraduate instruction, and particularly in high-demand technical fields, that are the focus of many business-university partnerships, is explored.…

Some 122 university-based research and development (R&D) laboratories were examined to evaluate the extent to which they pursue generic/basic research goals. The study focused on structural, behavioral, and environmental variables affecting the nature of R&D products. Organizational characteristics that are most likely to stimulate…

Academic senates remain an important feature of higher education governance even though they have been criticized as being ineffective. Senates are examined from the perspective of alternative organizational models, and it is suggested that the functions of the senate are best understood by considering colleges as symbolic systems. (Author/MLW)

A heuristic procedure likened to strategic planning for building college-wide writing programs is described. The management and political issues that arise in building a program are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Cost-of-living differentials are so great that discussing academic compensation without reference to cost-of-living data is to draw an incomplete picture. The extent to which the cost of living affects faculty compensation is demonstrated by comparing faculty at 388 institutions in terms of nominal and real compensation. (Author/MLW)

Content analysis revealed that specialized accreditors include few explicit educational outcome statements in published standards. A comparison of differentially explicit agencies based on independently derived faculty views about outcome emphasis and accrediting rigor indicated that more experience and firmer data are needed to judge the impact…

Using survey data from past participants, an evaluation of the American Council on Education Fellows Program is presented. The study describes the characteristics of the Fellows, tracks their career paths, and summarizes Fellows' and Mentors' assessment of the learning accomplished through the program and its impact on their careers. (Author/MLW)

Four conceptual issues (theoretical definition of performance, level of analysis, constituencies, and time) and four measurement issues (selecting properties, standards, and indicators, and comparing performance to standards) were used to study faculty performance in higher education. Implications are addressed. (Author/MLW)

As part of a study on faculty career development, analyses focused on the degree to which experiences and/or feelings associated with work directly colored or "spilled over" to life outside of work and vice versa. Differences by gender and rank were also examined. (Author/MLW)