Contents

• Editorial
• Presidential Address
• Articles
• Review Essay

Altbach, Philip G.
• Editorial: The Review and the Field of Higher Education
  Subjects:
  • Review of higher education (Baltimore, Md.).
  • Association for the Study of Higher Education.
  • Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.

Terenzini, Patrick T.
• Presidential Address: Rediscovering Roots: Public Policy and Higher Education Research
  Subjects:
  • Higher education and state.
  • Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.

  Abstract:

  Despite a decade of critiques that research on higher education is largely unrelated to urgent policy issues, little seems to have changed. This article (from the 1995 ASHE Presidential Address) argues that higher education researchers have lost sight of their field's origins as an applied field of study. Five suggestions are offered for narrowing the gulf between research, policy, and practice.

Dey, Eric L.
Hurtado, Sylvia, 1957-.
• Faculty Attitudes Toward Regulating Speech on College Campuses
  Subjects:
  • Freedom of speech.
  • College teachers -- Attitudes.

  Abstract:

  This study examines faculty support for different types of policies designed to regulate speech on campus. The authors examine data from a recent national survey of college faculty for individual and institutional correlates of support. The results show complex patterns. For example, more than half of the faculty support the prohibition of racist and sexist speech, while only about one-quarter support policies designed to ban extreme speakers from campus.

Cook, W. Bruce.
Lasher, William F.
• Toward a Theory of Fund Raising in Higher Education
  Subjects:
  • Educational fund raising.
  • Universities and colleges -- Finance.

  Abstract:

  Fund raising has played a prominent role in the history of American higher education and long been a central function of the academic presidency. Today fund raising provides support for more areas of higher education than ever before, and academic chief executives are increasingly expected or required to take an active role in procuring and stewarding private gifts for their institutions. This research was the first study of this phenomenon that is both national in scope and theory generating. The authors identified the key variables or prerequisites which determine fund-raising outcomes and formulated theoretical models which explain, respectively, the fund-raising process and presidential fund raising in higher education.

Springer, Leonard.
Palmer, Betsy.
Terenzini, Patrick T.
Pascarella, Ernest T.
Nora, Amaury.
• Attitudes toward Campus Diversity: Participation in a Racial or Cultural Awareness Workshop
  Subjects:
  • Multiculturalism -- Statistics.
  • Minority students.
  • College students -- Attitudes -- Statistics.

  Abstract:

  A three-year study of 1,061 White undergraduates at 17 U.S. colleges and universities indicated that women and students in relatively liberal majors started college with more favorable attitudes toward diversity on campus than men and students in relatively conservative majors. Although students in conservative majors were less likely to participate in a racial or cultural awareness workshop, they, as well as all other groups of students surveyed, developed more favorable attitudes by participating.

Goodchild, Lester F.
• G. Stanley Hall and the Study of Higher Education
  Subjects:
  • Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924 -- Contributions in education.
  • Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.

  Abstract:

  The centenary of higher education as a field of study occurred in 1993, commemorating the first course in higher education, offered in the autumn of 1893 at Clark University by G. Stanley Hall. This course also launched the first higher education program, for by 1924, three professors had offered 16 courses, written numerous publications, and advised the first 10 master's and doctoral students. This article reviews Hall's professional life, his concept of higher pedagogy, his rationale for its study, and the program's three developmental phases.

Schuster, Jack H.
Smith, Daryl G.
Corak, Kathleen A.
Yamada, Myrtle M.
• Review Essay: Strategic Governance: How to Make Big Decisions Better
  Subjects:
  • Education, Higher -- United States -- Administration -- Case studies.
  • Reviewer: Leslie, David W.
  • Review title: "Strategic governance:" the wrong questions?

  Abstract:

  This review essay discusses the conclusions of Strategic Governance about strategizing, planning, and governing in higher education. The study of joint big decision committees reported in this book is carefully and thoroughly reported, but its conclusion that strategy and legitimate governance are in tension with one another may result from too narrow a conceptual starting point. The review essay concludes that a wider range of adaptions than formal strategic planning may serve higher education well in a time of great external challenges.