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Build It and Will They Come?: The Effect of Investing in Cultural Consumption Amenities in Higher Education on Student-Level Outcomes
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Mughan, Siân; Sherrod Hale, Jessica; Woronkowicz, Joanna – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Despite a climate of fiscal scarcity, higher education institutions are making big investments in campus consumption amenities while reducing instructional expenditures and growing increasingly reliant on tuition revenue. Few empirical studies exist exploring why universities increasingly invest in these amenities; however, one compelling…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Educational Finance
Successful Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: "Adapting" versus "Adopting" the Institutional Environment
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Fox, Mary Frank; Sonnert, Gerhard; Nikiforova, Irina – Research in Higher Education, 2009
This article focuses upon programs for undergraduate women in science and engineering, which are a strategic research site in the study of gender, science, and higher education. The design involves both quantitative and qualitative approaches, linking theory, method, questions, and analyses in ways not undertaken previously. Using a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Environment, Females, Undergraduate Study
A New Context for Understanding Civic Responsibility: Relating Culture to Action at a Research University
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Thornton, Courtney H.; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Research in Higher Education, 2007
Civic responsibility as an ideal of higher education is rarely considered through a cultural and theoretical lens. Swidler's (1986, "American Sociological Review", 51: 273-286) framework linking ideology, culture and action was used in this ethnographic study of a research university (a) to understand dominant institutional beliefs about civic…
Descriptors: Role Models, Research Universities, Ethnography, Ideology
Characteristics of U.S., Japanese, and British Commonwealth Universities Offering Education in Agriculture
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Richards, James M., Jr. – Research in Higher Education, 1975
Reports a study that compared universities that do and do not provide agricultural training examining similarities and differences among the nations with respect to such characteristics as size, affluence, and technological emphasis. (JT)
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
SSIE: Semiprojective Scales of Institutional Evaluation
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Krus, David J.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1975
Reports an exploratory study designed to describe the development of the scales, investigate concerns regarding student perceptions of a large university, and examine in a standard research situation the viability of a new method of multidimensional analysis (order analysis, proposed as an inferential alternative to factor analysis). (JT)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Higher Education, Institutional Environment
Determinants of Institutional Attractiveness to Bright, Prospective College Students
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Anderson, Richard E. – Research in Higher Education, 1976
An examination of the institutional characteristics which affect the attractiveness of colleges and universities to bright, prospective students showed that of 28 selected variables low tuition, well-credentialed faculty, research orientation, and fiscal strength appear as the important factors in raising institutional attractiveness. (Editor/JT)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Choice, Colleges, Economic Status
The Reverse Transfer Student: A Growing Factor in Higher Education
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Brimm, Jack; Achilles, C. M. – Research in Higher Education, 1976
A study of 195 reverse transfer students showed that following a poor academic performance at the university, the students achieved satisfactorily at the two-year college. Students who later returned to the university improved their grades with each quarter's course work. Factors associated with academic performance at the two institutions are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Educational Research, Grades (Scholastic)