Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Subtitle: Volume XVIII
By: Edited by John C. Smart
Series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Publisher: Kluwer Academic; Agathon Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9781402012310
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Higher & further education; Social research & statistics; Science; Education; General; Research; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Education / Higher; Education-Research; Education-Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Science / General
Description: The impetus for this handbook series is the belief that the further maturation of higher education as an area of scholarly inquiry is contingent upon our ability to bring order and understanding to the increasingly rich, diverse, and fragmented research findings that are presently available.

This series of annual volumes is published under the sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
Table of contents: title: Contributors
pagenum: vii; label: 1.
title: From Number Crunching to Spirituality / Alexander W. Austin
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: State Governance Reform of Higher Education: Patterns, Trends, and Theories of the Public Policy Process / Michael K. McLendon
pagenum: 57; label: 3.
title: College Environments, Diversity, and Student Learning /Sylvia Hurtado, Eric L. Dey, Patricia Y. Gurin, and Gerald Gurin
pagenum: 145; label: 4.
title: Identity Research in Higher Education: Commonalities, Differences, and Complementarities / Kristen A. Renn, Patrick Dilley, and Mathew Prentice
pagenum: 191; label: 5.
title: What can Labor Economics Tell Us about the Earnings and Employment Prospects for Faculty? / Robert K. Toutkoushian
pagenum: 263; label: 6.
title: Studying Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches / Laura W. Perna
pagenum: 323; label: 7.
title: Using Multilevel SEM to Study Leadership Effectiveness in Higher Education / Vicki J. Rosser
pagenum: 389; label: 8.
title: Event History Methods: Conceptual Issues and an Application to Student Departure from College / Stephen L. DesJardins
pagenum: 421; label: 9.
title: Globalization and Universities / Jan Currie
pagenum: 473; label: 10.
title: Evaluating College and University Teaching: Reflections of a Practitioner / William E. Cashin
pagenum: 531; label: 11.
title: Confronting the Burden of the Past: The Historical Antecedents of the Present Predicament of African Universities / Y. G-M. Lulat
pagenum: 595; label: 12.
title: An Institutional Perspective on Higher Education Policy: The Case of Academic Quality Assurance / David D. Hill
pagenum: 669; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 701; title: Author Index
pagenum: 709; title: Contents of Previous Volumes
pagenum: 725