Analysis of gender patterns in science and engineering degrees and employment suggests that little progress has been made toward gender equity, despite efforts to promote change. It is suggested that, although women have become more comfortable with their image as scientists, they have not adjusted to the reality of work within these disciplines.…

A longitudinal study investigated differences in the experiences of women at women's colleges (n=160) and women at coeducational colleges (n=764) as they related to a variety of outcome variables. Results confirm the important role of institutional climate, student involvement, and the particular priorities and goals often found at women's…

A study used structural equation techniques to examine the relationships between gender and minority status of research university faculty (n=146) and professional role interests, work satisfaction, and allocation of work time; professional profile of interests, energies, and attitudes and perceived fit with institutional priorities; and gender,…

A structural model exploring relationships between ability, beliefs about mathematics, and achievement in remedial college mathematics is presented. In this study (n=236 students), previous mathematics skills were significantly related to beliefs, but beliefs were unrelated to final course grade for males. Conversely, beliefs about mathematics…

The design of a faculty salary structure that gives weight both to professional concerns about merit and to personal concerns of salary improvement in the course of an academic career is illustrated. Commitment to quality, resources, and leadership are seen as essential to this model's success. (MSE)

Recent data about faculty salaries, promotion, tenure rates, and merit pay are examined to shed new light on the broad influence of unionism in U.S. faculty compensation patterns. A major question posed is whether or not incidence of merit pay declines with the spread of unionism. (MSE)

Presidents in a cross-section of nonunionized colleges and in all unionized colleges, faculty union heads, system-level administrators, and central office union officials were surveyed to assess the impact of unionization on faculty senates. It was found that, although unions sometimes challenge senates, the dual system survives. (MSE)

Variation in unit instructional costs among major research universities is substantial, much of which can be accounted for in differences in instructional output. The tendency for graduate enrollment to increase may be a serious threat to costs, and enrollment decline in private institutions is more serious than in public universities. (MSE)

In general, students receiving financial aid in their freshman year show greater academic persistence than nonreceivers, but increasing amounts of aid per semester have nonsignificant negative impacts on the number of semesters attended in a four-year period. Persistence may be hampered by increasing loan burdens on students. (MSE)

Two methods used to predict enrollment at Montgomery College in Maryland are compared and evaluated, and the administrative context in which they are used is considered. The two methods involve time series analysis (curve fitting) and indicator techniques (yield from components). (MSE)

The extent, type, and quality of information that state postsecondary education agencies provide prospective students regarding higher education opportunities are investigated. Results indicate most states do provide information but it varies in format, content, and quality. Good materials that might serve as models for other states are…

Public and private college participation in program review activities of 45 state-level higher education agencies are classified as either reactive, advisory, formative, or voting, depending upon institutional access to decision making. Such access had important ramifications for the issue of reciprocity in conducting reviews and implementing…

The academic career of Torsten Husen is described. He sees being a professor as having "the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge as a main preoccupation, which to a large extent means to read, think, and write," as well as to be able to guide young people. (Author/MLW)

Selective single-sex colleges provide a more favorable environment than comparable coeducational institutions for influencing White, middle-class, academically capable undergraduates of both sexes to disregard conventional occupational prescriptions based on gender. Sexually segregated academic settings are instrumental in reducing male-female…

A well-designed plan for the evaluation of teaching can serve purposes of both improving instruction and making administrative decisions about pay, rank, and tenure. Five approaches to the evaluation of teaching are presented, which are consistent with six principles derived from an analysis of current research and practice. (Author/MLW)