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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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When Research Is Not Enough: Community, Care, and Love.
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Lincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 2000
The 1998 presidential address for the Association for the Study of Higher Education shares comments of graduate students in higher education. Suggests that both students and faculty desire a learning community based on an ethic of caring and love in a classroom context. (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Focus Groups, Graduate Students, Higher Education
The Structure of Promotion and Tenure Decisions in Institutions of Higher Education: A Policy Analysis.
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Lincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 1983
The rationale underlying the promotion-tenure process needs to be adequately analyzed since many institutions' policies appear undifferentiated on the principles of merit and worth. Sorting the decisions, devising appropriate and open criteria, and applying those criteria consistently are advocated. Guidelines are outlined. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Decision Making, Governance
Ethics: The Failure of Positivist Science.
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Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Guba, Egon G. – Review of Higher Education, 1989
The metaphysical assumptions undergirding conventional (positivist) approaches to research in the social sciences provide a warrant both for deceptive research and for objectifying human research participants. The present status of ethical guidelines for inquiry are reviewed. Special ethical problems typical of naturalistic inquiry are outlined.…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Ethics, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility
A Future-Oriented Comment on the State of the Profession.
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Lincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 1986
New perspectives on social science research suggest five propositions: studies in higher education must not be value-singular; higher education researchers must not ignore "harbingers of the paradigm revolution"; they must take into account new interpretations of knowledge acquisition; they must not depend on prescriptive models; and they must…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Research, Higher Education, Models
Teaching Qualitative Methods in Higher Education.
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Tierney, William G.; Lincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 1994
The content of graduate courses on qualitative research methods in higher education research is discussed. Major topics suggested include entree and building rapport, field notes and data management, adequacy criteria, ethics in qualitative inquiry, site selection, and writing the case study. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Content, Educational Research, Ethics