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Maher, Frances A.; Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson – Gender and Education, 2011
The article presents a theoretical framework, "institutional phase theory", that charts the process by which higher education faculties in the USA were broadened by race, gender, and to a certain extent class over the past 40 years. Drawing upon institutional ethnographies of three very different universities--a top-ranked private…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Higher Education
Carey, Kevin, Ed.; Schneider, Mark, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Three years after U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling's national commission on higher education, and nearly a decade after No Child Left Behind revolutionized k-12 accountability, there is little agreement on what accountability in higher education should look like. While more students are enrolling in (and failing to complete)…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Tenure, Research Universities
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Kezim, Boualem; Pariseau, Susan E.; Quinn, Frances – Journal of Education for Business, 2005
The authors performed a statistical analysis to investigate whether grade inflation existed in the business school at a small private college in the northeast region of the United States. The results showed that grade inflation existed and exhibited a linear trend over a 20-year period. The authors found that grade inflation was related to faculty…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Private Colleges, Grade Inflation, Business Education