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Print ISSN: 0162-5748

Edited by Philip G. Altbach


The Review of Higher Education 21.3, Spring 1998

Contents

Articles

    Slaughter, Sheila.
  • Federal Policy and Supply-Side Institutional Resource Allocation at Public Research Universities
    Subjects:
    • Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
    • Higher education and state -- United States.
    • Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
    Abstract:
      This article examines changes in federal student aid policy and federal research and development policy over the past twenty years and argues that policy changes in both arenas have converged on Research I universities, making them exemplars of Reaganomics, marked by privatization, deregulation, and commercialization. Reviewing national revenue and expenditure trends in public research universities shows changes that indicate privatization and commercialization. Finally, the article looks at patterns of institutional resource allocation to departments and connects these patterns, which privilege departments close to the market, to changes in federal policy.
    Johnstone, D. Bruce (Donald Bruce), 1941-.
  • Patterns of Finance: Revolution, Evolution, or More of the Same?
    Subjects:
    • Education, Higher -- United States -- Finance.
    • Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
    Abstract:
      This article addresses the prospect of revolutionary change in patterns of financing American higher education in the next decade. It begins with a consideration of current patterns of financing that may or may not be changed profoundly, then examines ways they might change, and concludes with an appraisal of the likelihood that, or circumstances under which, radical changes might or might not take place.
    O'Neil, Robert M.
  • Academic Freedom: Revolutionary Change or Business as Usual?
    Subjects:
    • Academic freedom -- United States.
    • Education, Higher -- United States.
    Abstract:
      This essay focuses on the prospects of protecting academic freedom in American higher education. It addresses three specific areas of potential conflict and tension--pressures to divorce the protection of academic freedom from formal tenure systems, the increasing regulation of harassment and other forms of incivility in the collegiate community, and a host of new and difficult dimensions of academic freedom in cyberspace--for which the academic world is surprisingly ill prepared.
    Keller, George, 1928-.
  • Does Higher Education Research Need Revisions?
    Subjects:
    • Education, Higher -- Research -- United States.
    • Methodology.
    Abstract:
      Quantitative studies, especially small-scale statistical probes, have become the dominant and preferred mode of inquiry in higher education research. But criticisms of this methodological monism are mounting. The article examines the presuppositions of the prevailing mode and describes the several strands of criticism, noting how education and social research have changed in the past four decades. The article also contains suggestions for improving research in the field of higher education.
    Hurtado, Sylvia, 1957-.
    Milem, Jeffrey F.
    Clayton-Pedersen, Alma R.
    Allen, Walter Recharde.
  • Enhancing Campus Climates for Racial/Ethnic Diversity: Educational Policy and Practice
    Subjects:
    • Multicultural education -- United States.
    • Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States.
    • College environment -- United States.
    Abstract:
      This paper summarizes findings from classic and contemporary research on campus racial climate according to a four-dimensional model: (a) an institution's historical legacy of inclusion or exclusion of various racial/ethnic groups, (b) its structural diversity, or the numerical representation of various racial/ethnic groups, (c) the psychological climate of perceptions and attitudes between and among groups, and (d) the behavioral climate, of campus intergroup relations. For each dimension, the paper recommends ways to enhance educational policy.

Review Essay

    Finkin, Matthew W., ed.
  • Review Essay: The Case for Tenure
    Subjects:
    • College teachers -- Tenure -- United States.
    • Reviewer: Hutcheson, Philo.
    • Review Title: Tenure: traditions, policies, and practices.
    Abstract:
      Tenure has been a favorite target for critics since its inception in the United States in the early 1900s. Two recent books, The Case for Tenure, edited by Matthew W. Finkin, and William G. Tierney and Estela Mara Bensimon's Promotion and Tenure are important contributions to the dialogue. This review essay places each in the history of tenure and in the current context. Each contributes to but does not fill the professoriate's need for a call to defend tenure that incorporates the tradition of principled support with nuanced understanding of the context of the times.



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