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Faculty Diversity in Higher Education: Perspectives on race, ethnicity, gender and disability

Volume 4 / Number 1
March 2008

Introduction: Faculty Diversity in Dixie
By Derryn Moten

The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Faculty Diversity
By Lezli Baskerville, LaNitra Berger and Lionel Smith

The Trouble with Faculty Diversity
By Walter Benn-Michaels

Can the Academy Live the Work and Walk the Talk? Lessons Learned from a Long-Term Faculy Dialogue about Racism
By Stephanie Cox Suárez

Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia
By Catherine Hill and Sarah Warbelow

Why "Diversity" Should Include "Disability" with Practical Suggestions for Academic Unions
By Sara D. Knapp

Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships for Faculty, Especially Across Gender and Ethnicity
By S. Lynn Shollen, Carole J. Bland, Anne L. Taylor, Anne Marie Weber-Main and Patricia A. Mulcahy

Do Organizational Structures and Strategies Increase Faculty Diversity? A Cultural Analysis
By William G. Tierney and Margaret W. Sallee

Building Academic Excellence through Gender Equity
By Joan C. Williams and Donna L. Norton

Biographies of Contributors

 

The Uneven Road to College Opportunity: Who gets left behind?

Volume 3/ Number 1
January 2007

Editor's Note--The Fifth Freedom:Access to Postsecondary Education in America Today
By Paul Jude Beauvais

Privatizing the Benefits from Higher Education and Its Effect on Access
By Daniel Georgianna and Robert T. Jones

Postsecondary Access and Success for First-Generation College Students

By Jennifer Engle

Accessibility to the PhD and Professoriate for First-Generation College Graduates: Review and Implications for Students, Faculty, and Campus Policies
By Kevin M. Kniffin

Postsecondary Educational Access for Undocumented Students: Opportunities and Constraints
By Jennifer L. Frum

African American Access to Higher Education: The Evolving Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
By Brian E. Harper

Financial Aid as a Perceived Barrier to College for Latino Students
By Maria Estela Zarate and David Fabienke

The Internet and College Access: Challenges for Low-Income Students
By Kristan M. Venegas

Biographies of Contributors

 

Accountability: To Whom and For What

Volume 2 / Number 1
March 2006

Editor’s Note—Does it Count?
By Mitchell Vogel 

Success and Accountability

Searching for Success in Higher Education
By Virginia Myers Kelly

The Investment Payoff: A 50-State Analysis of the Public and Private Benefits of Higher Education
By Sarah Krichels Goan and Alisa F. Cunningham

Embracing Accountability
By Robert T. Mundhenk

The Academy Under Siege: Threats to Teaching and Learning in American Higher Education
By Roy M. Vestrich

Higher Education, Government and Expectations of Academic Quality and Accountability: Where Do We Go from Here?
By Judith S. Eaton

Graduation Rates as a Measure of College Accountability
By Lawrence Gold and Lindsay Albert

The Rise and Fall of SPRE: A Look at Failed Efforts to Regulate Postsecondary Education in the 1990s
By Terese Rainwater

Book Reviews

Book Review of Achieving Accountability in Higher Education: Balancing Public, Academic, and Market Demands by Joseph C. Burke (editor)
By Kelly R. Risbey

Book Review of College Unranked: Affirming Educational Values in College Admissions by Lloyd Thacker (editor)
By Greg Dubrow

Biographies of Contributors

 

Academic Values, Market Values: The Shifting Balance

Volume 1 / Number 1
June 2004

Editor’s Note
By Mitchell Vogel

Introduction- The Concept of Corporatization: A Useful Tool or Feel Good Slogan?
By William Scheuerman and Thomas Kriger

Market Practices in Academe

Key Trends in Higher Education: A Review of the Data
By John Lee and Sue Clery, JBL Associates

Academic Capitalism in the New Economy: Challenges and Choices
By Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter, University of Arizona

Rhetoric, Reality and the Risks
By Frank Newman and Lara Couturier, Brown University

Business Forces and the Life of the Mind
By William A. Galston, University of Maryland

Research and the Bottom Line in Today’s University
By Sarah Bonewits and Larry Soley, Marquette University

Market Values within the Disciplines

The Uneasy Relationship Between Business and the Humanities
By Frank Donoghue, Ohio State University

Profit or Perish: Today’s University Presses
By Willis G. Regier, Director, University of Illinois Press

Making the Managerial Conscious in Composition Studies
By Donna Strickland, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The Changing Role of Labor Education
By Edward Hertenstein, Labor Education, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign

Book Reviews

Book Review, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok
By Susan Meisenhelder, California State University/San Bernardino (former president, California Faculty Association)

Biographies of Contributing Authors