Copyright © 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education E-ISSN: 1090-7009
Print ISSN: 0162-5748

Edited by Philip G. Altbach


The Review of Higher Education 21.1, Fall 1997

Contents

Articles

    Rosenblum, Gerald.
    Rosenblum, Barbara Rubin.
  • Changing Patterns of Job Entitlements in Academe: Labour Market Entry
    Subjects:
    • College teachers -- Canada -- Supply and demand.
    • Graduate students -- Employment.
    • Job security.
    Abstract:
    Using the general work experience in Canada and the United States as a point of departure, the authors explore shifts in the characteristics of cohorts of newly hired instructors at Canadian universities from 1977 to 1991. They show a pattern of changes in academic job entitlements and major contributions of teaching outside the tenure stream (i.e., in external labour markets). These shifts include increased difficulty of access to academic appointments, manifested by increasing age of entrants, higher credentials, and a decreasing proportion of senior hires. Women's accelerated entrance to academe coincides with reduced options and a future of much more chaotic and difficult career trajectories, which they, as well as male entrants, must confront.
    Toma, J. Douglas.
  • Exploring a Typology for Classifying Inquirers and Inquiry into Paradigms
    Subjects:
    • Paradigm (Theory of knowledge).
    • Scholars -- Classification.
    • Universities and colleges -- Faculty.
    Abstract:
    The typology of inquiry paradigms by which Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba divide social sciences scholars can be adapted to other types of disciplines, including law. Even though scholarship in law is typically more normative and less empirical than in the social sciences, qualitative data drawn from law faculty suggests that both sets of scholars work in parallel inquiry paradigms. These parallels indicate that the constructs at the basis of the typology are sound and make possible cross-disciplinary comparisons based upon inquiry paradigms.
    Kuh, George D.
    Vesper, Nick.
  • A Comparison of Student Experiences with Good Practices in Undergraduate Education Between 1990 and 1994
    Subjects:
    • College students -- Attitudes.
    • Universities and colleges -- Evaluation.
    • Teacher-student relationships.
    Abstract:
    Good practices in undergraduate education consist of faculty and student behaviors associated with desired outcomes from attending college. This study compares the experiences of two groups of lower-division undergraduates with good practices at baccalaureate institutions and doctoral-granting universities between 1990 and 1994. During this period, the frequency of student-faculty interaction increased at baccalaureate institutions. However, at doctoral-granting universities faculty-student interaction and active learning decreased.

Focus on Female Faculty

    Riger, Stephanie.
    Stokes, Joseph P., 1946-.
    Raja, Sheela.
    Sullivan, Megan.
  • Measuring Perceptions of the Work Environment for Female Faculty
    Subjects:
    • Women college teachers -- Attitudes.
    • Sex role in the work environment.
    • Perception -- Testing.
    Abstract:
    This study developed a scale to measure perceptions of the working environment for female faculty in higher education using data from 626 faculty members from the United States and Canada. The Academic Work Environment for Women Scale includes three dimensions: differential treatment of women, balancing work and personal obligations, and sexist attitudes and comments. To demonstrate the utility of the scale, we examined the relationship between the proportion of women in an academic department and the perceived supportiveness or hostility toward women of that department and the relationship of scale scores to demographic indicators.
    Dickens, Cynthia Sullivan, 1948-.
    Sagaria, Mary Ann Danowitz.
  • Feminists at Work: Collaborative Relationships Among Women Faculty
    Subjects:
    • Women college teachers.
    • Group work in research.
    • Authorship -- Collaboration.
    Abstract:
    This article describes an interpretive study of 26 feminist women faculty who collaborate with another woman or women in research and/or scholarly writing. The findings indicate that collaboration is a salient practice among feminist scholars. Collaborative practices reflect distinctive pedagogical, instrumental, professional, and intimate patterns that are philosophically congruent with feminism.

Review Essay

    Casement, William, 1947-.
  • Review Essay: The Great Canon Controversy: The Battle of the Books in Higher Education
    Subjects:
    • Education, Higher -- United States -- Curricula.
    • Reviewer: Conrad, Clifton.
    • Review title: On culture, canons, and college curriculum.
    Abstract:
    Two new books stake out competing positions in the "culture wars": The Great Canon Controversy advances a traditionalist "reform" posture that examines historic and contemporary claims for the canon, while The Opening of the American Mind is a counterattack that uses history to advance the claim that contemporary multicultural shifts in the canon reflect the historic openness of our colleges and universities to multiple cultural heritages. A third, Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum, addresses the "culture wars" and, more broadly, undergraduate curriculum design, evaluation, and change.



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