Higher education
Subtitle: handbook of theory and research
By: edited by John C. Smart
Contributors: Association for the Study of Higher Education; Smart, John C.
Publisher: Agathon Press; Published under the sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Higher Education; Research; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Handbook of theory and research
Work titles: Higher education (New York, N.Y. : 1985)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An analysis of the paradigmatic evolution of U.S. higher education and implications for the year 2000 / Hasan Simsek and Richard B. Heydinger; title: A motivational analysis of academic life in college / Martin V. Covington; title: The paradox of growth in federal aid for college students, 1965-1990 / James C. Hearn; title: Scientist and engineer supply and demand / Larry R. Leslie and Ronald L. Oaxaca; title: Two-year colleges and minority students' aspirations: help or hindrance? / Amaury Nora; title: The influence of college resiedence halls on students / Grefory S. Blimling; title: Postmodernism and critical theory in higher education: implications for research and practice / William G. Tierney and Robert A. Rhoads; title: Qualitative and quantitative approaches to academic culture: do they tell us the same thing? / Marvin W. Peterson and Melinda G. Spencer; title: Higher education in China: challenges of making foreign knowledge serve China / Wenhui Zhong and Ruth Hayhoe; title: College and university budgeting: what do we know? what do we need to know? / William F. Lasher and Deborah L. Greene.