Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research [Hardcover]

From Number Crunching to Spirituality; A.W. Astin.State Governance Reform of Higher Education: Patterns, Trends, and Theories of the Public Policy Process; M.K. McLendon.College Environments, Diversity, and Student Learning; S. Hurtado, E.L. Dey, P. Gurin, G. Gurin.Identity Research in Higher Education: Communalities, Differences, and Complementarities; K.A. Renn, P. Dilley, M. Prentice.What Can Labor Economics Tell Us About the Earnings and Employment Prospects for Faculty? R.K. Toutkoushian.Studying Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; L.W. Perna.Using Multilevel SEM to Study Leadership Effectiveness in Higher Education; V.J. Rosser.Event History Methods: Conceptual Issues and An Application to Student Departure from College; S.L. DesJardins.Globalization and Universities; J. Currie.Evaluating College and University Teaching: Reflections of a Practitioner; W.E. Cashin.Confronting the Burden of the Past: The Historical Antecedents of the Present Predicament of African Universities; Y.G-M. Lulat.An Institutional Perspective on Higher Education Policy: The Case of Academic Quality Assurance; D.D. Dill.

Each contribution, (solid studies of literature) are written by native professional researchers, who are famous in their field [...] The consequence is that the contributions in the handbook are based on similar research, this presents us with a wide perspective course of action, which can be touched on for future research. It is evident that each research group who is involved in Higher Education should have a subscription for this book.
(Hans van Hout, University of Amsterdam)
There are several reasons why the Handbooks deserve a wider audience, especially among scholars, policy-makers and practitioners in the United Kingdom. Firstly the shift to mass higher education in England and the other home countries, although two decades behind the American lÉ