The relationship between reputational standing, productivity, and gender is explored. Contrary to the results of most studies that assign article publication a prominent role in predicting reputational standing, chapter publication rates are identified as strong and consistent predictors of reputational standing. (Author/MLW)

Cost-related tuition can increase efficiency in higher education and in the labor markets it serves, and provide fiscal gains for individual institutions, depending on enrollment demands. Cost-related tuition and its possible effects are explained and the University of Minnesota's experience in implementing this policy are described. (Author/MLW)

The influence of previous college involvement, organizational characteristics, early career experiences, and current self-concept on the intention of college dropouts to resume their college education is examined. (Author/MLW)

The ease with which two tables can be constructed that capture the many changes of majors made by a selected student cohort over a specified period of years is demonstrated. The way in which such tables can be used by planners at both the departmental and university level is shown. (Author/MLW)

Using career histories of academic psychologists, a study that investigated sex differences in patterns of geographic location and mobility, predictors of mobility, and the outcomes of geographic location and mobility is described. Women tend to be less mobile than men immediately after receiving their doctorates. (Author/MLW)

A job-related system for evaluating faculty performance in a college of business is examined. The method emphasizes the role of the department chair, links weighted faculty responsibilities in teaching, scholarship, and service, and uses results in annual evaluations and salary recommendations. (Author/MLW)

A survey of professional field faculty in programs at 346 colleges and universities enabled identification of field-specific environments for preparing entry-level students. The environments are independent of institutional type and size but parallel the occupational prestige of the profession and the gender ratio of graduates. (Author/MLW)

Undergraduate admission test scores were traced for Ph.D. recipients in eight arts and science disciplines and compared to the scores of those who earned degrees in business, law, and medicine. The data do not support the hypothesis that more able college graduates have done post-baccalaureate study in the professions. (Author/MLW)

National reports on higher education are seen as a form of democratic propaganda whose aim is participation. Their progress is described through content analysis of media responses. "Aesthetic judgment" is seen as the key to participation in reform by college faculty and administrators. (Author/MLW)

The higher education reports fail to put education in a social context and ignore the main finding of 50 years of research--that the problems of education are caused by the outer society and cannot be solved until changes are made in basic economic and political institutions. (Author/MLW)

A study of patterns of undergraduates' credit-distribution in three major fields of study (mathematics, political science, and English) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is described. Students' extra-major credit distribution was less than it might have been and extra-major specialization greater than it needed to be. (MLW)

A profile of prolific contributors to higher education literature is presented. Exceptional output is associated with academic sponsorship, authentic enjoyment of inquiry activities, facilitating work environments and personal life styles, a capacity for taking advantage of fortuitous opportunities, and an inordinate amount of time and effort…

Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia as the quintessential beginning of the state university is seen as simplistic. Two contributors to the new type university, William R. Davie and Abraham Baldwin are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Case histories of three "first" municipal two-year colleges were used to examine the relative influence of nationally recognized junior college advocates and of local political, social, and economic factors on college founding. Specific relationships were identified between college founding and other educational, political, and social reforms.…

Results of 25 empirical student demand studies are standardized and analyzed using meta-analytic methods. Results show that higher prices reduce higher education enrollments, and students historically have been more responsive to tuition prices than to (offsetting) student aid. (Author/MLW)