Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

To recapitulate, Greeks differ from Independents and from the academy's value priorities, but for the most part these differences derive from antecedent charac­ teristics. Moreover, there are some grounds for speculating that these anteced­ ent difference

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Associate Editors Alan E. Bayer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (faculty) David D. Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (governance and planning) Corinna A. Ethington, The University of Memphis (research methodology) James C. Hearn, University of Minnesota (economics and finance) David W. Leslie, The College of William and Mary (systems and organizations) Patricia McDonough, University of California, Los Angeles (social context) Raymond P. Perry, University of Manitoba (curriculum and instruction) Nelly P. Stromquist, University of Southern California (comparative and international education) Patrick T. Terenzini, The Pennsylvania State University (students) Richard A. Voorhees, Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System (community colleges)

HIGHER EDUCATION: Handbook of Theory and Research Volume XIV

Edited by

John C. Smart University of Memphis

Senior Associate Editor

William G. Tierney University of Southern California

Published under the sponsorship of The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)

AGATHON PRESS New York

© 1999 by Agathon Press 5648 Riverdale Avenue Bronx, NY 10471-2106

All Rights Reserved No ponion of this book may be reproduced by any process, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher.

ISBN: 0-87586-125-3 (paper) ISBN: 0-87586-126-1 (cloth) ISSN: 0882-4 126

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-642109

Contents The Contributors

vii

Teaching, Learning, and Thinking About Teaching and Learning W. J. McKeachie

1

Costs and Productivity in Higher Education: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Darrell R. Lewis and Halil Dunbar

39

Institutional Adaptation: Demands for Management Reform and University Administration

Patricia J. Gumport and Barbara Sporn

103

University Restructuring: The Role of Economic and Political Contexts

Patricia J. Gumport and Brian Pusser

146

Understanding Strategy: An Assessment of Theory and Practice

Jennifer B. Presley and David W. Leslie

201

New Colleges for a New Century: Organizational Change and Development in Community Colleges

Richard L Alfred and Patricia Carter

240

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CONTENTS

Rasch Measurement in Higher Education Rita K. Bode and Benjamin Wright

287

Greek-letter Social Organizations in Higher Education: A Review of Research David H. Wilder and Hugh F. McKeegan

317

Cultural Capital as an Interpretive Framework for Faculty Life Jeffery P. Bieber

367

Cruel Environments: Sexual Abuse and Harassment in the Academy Linda Serra Hagedorn

398

The Global Emergence of a Field: Content, Form, and Promise in Women's Studies Nelly P. Stromquist

437

Author Index

469

Subject Index

481

Contents of Previous Volumes

491

Contributors RICHARD ALFRED is a professor of higher education in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He has extensive community college experie