Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

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Résumé
This is the 18th volume in this series which focuses on the theory and research of higher education. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them.

Contenu

1. From Number Crunching to Spirituality.- 2. State Governance Reform of Higher Education: Patterns, Trends, and Theories of the Public Policy Process.- 3. College Environments, Diversity, and Student Learning.- 4. Identity Research in Higher Education: Commonalities, Differences, and Complementarities.- 5. What Can Labor Economics Tell Us About the Earnings and Employment Prospects for Faculty?.- 6. Studying Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches.- 7. Using Multilevel Sem to Study Leadership Effectiveness in Higher Education.- 8. Event History Methods: Conceptual Issues and an Application to Student Departure from College.- 9. Globalization and Universities.- 10. Evaluating College and University Teaching: Reflections of a Practitioner.- 11. Confronting The Burden of the Past: The Historical Antecedents of the Present Predicament of African Universities.- 12. An Institutional Perspective on Higher Education Policy: The Case of Academic Quality Assurance.- Author Index.- of Previous Volumes.