This article discusses an approach to professional education which emphasizes intellectual skills and attitude-of-mind over content. Described is the application of this approach to a doctoral core course in higher education curriculum taken by University of Arizona (Tucson) students preparing for administrative or teaching careers in higher…

Reports on thoughts expressed by nine Future Faculty Fellows, graduate students active in the Preparing Future Faculty program, attending the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Comments addressed some fundamental questions facing education including the basic task to accomplish, questions about quality, and…

The Field-Initiated Studies program is open to institutions of higher education, public and private organizations, institutions, and agencies, as well as individuals. Applicants may propose projects that last up to 18 months, and proposals are reviewed and evaluated based on their technical quality and national importance judged by scholars and…

This document describes the processes and procedures used by the University of Georgia Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) assessment staff during 1974-75 to produce the following products: (1) performance indicators of public school principal competencies initially developed during the 1973-74 project year, (2) a report of…

This final report of the Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (CAEL) project provides an overview of the major activities of CAEL's first three years. It includes a brief history of CAEL, a description of the developmental work, and selected important outcomes of the field research. The Operational Models Project (which involves the…

The history of the philosophy of higher education was studied. Examining descriptions of the field of higher education was one approach, along with computer searches. There appeared to be a gap in the study of higher education--the failure to study the history of philosophy of higher education. The problem seemed to be that scholars had not tried…

Current knowledge about universities is such that approaches to their study should be both more frequently and more carefully made through organizational theory. While observers tend to agree about universities' general characteristics, important questions about their nature and viability are as yet unsettled. Michael Crozier's framework is…

Types of articles appearing in education journals are categorized and explained, and three higher education journals' contents in 1975 and 1980 are examined for their content type, in percentages and numbers of articles of each type. Based on the results, the journals were found lacking in inquiry, theory, and humanism. (MSE)

Higher education's contemporary emergence as a scholarly specialty is compared with the development of some other specialities--economics, political science, sociology. An interpretation of how fields become disciplines is offered and some parallels between the social sciences at the turn of the century and higher education today are explored.…

Revisions in the current thinking on the history of the nineteenth century American college are suggested by recent studies and by this overview of the field. Several proposals for future study of this period are suggested. (JMF)

Content analysis of five scholarly journals in the field of higher education from 1986-88 focused on the methodologies and topics of research reported there. Distribution of articles among 4 paradigms (functionalist, radical structuralist, interpretive, radical humanist), along 2 dimensions (social science, sociology), and according to 11 sets of…

This bibliography and background paper has been prepared to cover topics most frequently encountered in the field of archaeology and anthropology education: career information, excavation, fieldword opportunities, artifact identification, and preservation. The information included should provide avenues along which topics may be pursued further…

This report documents a broad category of information concerning the first five years of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Included in the report are the following chapters: (1) concept and practice in non-western area studies, (2) the language and area centers program, (3) impact of the centers program, (4) outlook for the program, and…

Five papers presented at the meeting of the Association of Professors of Higher Education (APHE) are divided into three topical areas. These areas concern: the field of higher education, teaching methods utilized in higher education programs, and an informal history of the APHE. Topics concern the isolation of higher educationists as scholars; an…

The pursuit of objectivity is among the most critical yet unresolved problems confronting the study of higher education. The entire process of research is theory-laden, putting into question the possibility of objectivity in historical investigation. A change of approach to address this issue is recommended. (MSE)