The expressway is employed as a metaphor for aspects of administrator mobility and some of the tensions inherent in administration as a profession are examined. Thorstein Veblen's concern for the use of business practices and values in academe are discussed and related to current practice. (Author/MLW)

Two senior scholars assess the first four volumes of "Higher Education: A Handbook of Theory and Research," a series on the nature of higher education as a discipline and the state of research in the field. (Author/MSE)

Job search activities of two-year college administrators were studied based on Granovetter's findings. Attention was paid to the importance of personal contacts versus formal sources of information and methods of becoming a candidate, factors that influence contact networks, and whether job-search behavior differed by type of administrative…

A brief history of academic women in the nineteenth century illustrates the potential for creatively merging historical analysis and contemporary social theory to examine higher education as an organization. Concepts of power, influence, and organizational change are used to give new perspectives to traditional historical study. (MSE)

The higher education community is urged to adapt the university to the 21st century. Five specific ways to initiate this change include: sharing expertise within and beyond the university, reflecting on the breadth and relevance of one's work, using new technologies to extend teaching and communication, diversifying the scholarly community, and…

Data from two surveys of two- and four-year colleges and universities (n=2,896 and n=1,512) investigated patterns in educational and occupational status of administrators' parents in comparison with the general population and by socioeconomic status, ethnic or minority status, gender, institution type, and position type. The majority of parents…