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• Overview of Higher Education in the United States: Diversity, Access, and the Role of the Marketplace (2004) (available as a PDF file)
  by Peter D. Eckel and Jacqueline E. King
  
  
• Measuring Up 2004: The National Report Card on Higher Education
  Pew Charitable Trusts an The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (also available as a PDF file)
  
  
• Globalization and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World (May 2004)
  by Philip G. Altbach

• Announcing two new OECD books on internationalization of higher education (a broad picture on trends and political challenges; a more specific one on quality assurance and accreditation in an international context.

• National Center for Education Statistics Reports:
  • A Classification System for 2-Year Postsecondary Institutions
    Explores the development of a classification system for 2-year institutions that can provide a framework for analysis and contribute to the discourse in public policy.
  • Bridging the Gap: Academic Preparation and Postsecondary Success of First-Generation Students
    Examines the high school preparation and postsecondary persistence of first-generation students--those students whose parents had no education beyond high school--and compares them with students whose parents went to college.
    
  • Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: 1993-94 and 1998-99
    Tabulations for the 1998-99 academic year that describes characteristics of the 9,653
    postsecondary education institutions in the United States.
    
  • Middle Income Undergraduates: Where They Enroll and How They Pay for Their Education
    Examines the characteristics of dependent middle-income undergraduates who attended college full-time, full-year, and how they paid for their education. Also compares these undergraduates with their lower and higher income counterparts and examines strategies that these middle income undergraduates might have used to meet the gap between financial aid and financial need (unmet need). The report also looks at how they filled the gap between price of attendance and the amount of financial aid they received (out-of-pocket costs).
    
    

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• Research on U.S. Students Abroad, Volume 1 ( - 1987)
  by Henry D. Weaver
  
  
• Research on U.S. Students Abroad, Volume 2 (1988-2000)
  by Maureen Chao
  
  
• Salaries and Tenure of Full-time Instructional Faculty on 9- and 10-month Contracts 1998-1999
  from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99)
  
  
• Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action
  by the Harvard University Civil Rights Project
  
  
• The On the Horizon website contains several publications, resources, and proceedings from previously conducted environmental scanning seminars
  
  
• Reflections on "Who Inspired Us to Teach the Way We Do"
  Collected via e-mail by Ted Panitz
  
  
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: Report of the Chancellor's Task Force on Intellectual Climate, August 1997
  
  
• Background Characteristics, Work Activities, and Compensation of Faculty and Instructional Staff in Postsecondary Institutions: Fall 1998
  Download, view and print the report as a pdf file   ( 626KB)
  This publication is the first from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99), a study of faculty and instructional staff in postsecondary institutions in the United States. This report describes the background characteristics, work activities, and compensation of faculty and instructional staff in public and private not-for-profit 2-year-and-above postsecondary institutions.
  
  
• Management fads in higher education: Where they come from, what they do, why they fail (NEW)
  by Robert Birnbaum
  Reviewed by Bob Barnetson, Alberta Colleges & Institutes Faculties Association
  
  
• Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (NEW)
  edited by Pat Hutchings
  
  
• Worldwide Inventory of Higher Education Centers and Programs (NEW)
  by Philip G. Altbach and David Engberg
  
  
• Sound Instruction: Ready to Use Classroom Practice (NEW)

  ISBN 0-9709895-0-4
  Attention educators: Sound Instruction: Ready to Use Classroom Practice houses, under one cover, a diversity of practical classroom advice. This new book, published by Rapid Intellect press, offers the reader a selection of the most outstanding and pertinent articles from past issues of Academic Exchange Quarterly (AEQ). Sound Instruction contains 400 pages of information covering four key areas of interest: technology, course content pedagogy, diverse student populations and higher education. If you are a teacher, instructor or professor - at any level, from kindergarten through graduate school - you will find this book to be a useful resource. Visit the Rapid Intellect website for more information: http://www.rapidintellect.com
  
  
  
• The Changing Academic Workplace: Comparative Perspectives
  edited by Philip G. Altbach
  
  
• Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change (NEW)
  by Alexander W. Astin and Helen S. Astin
  
  
• Tools for Teaching (NEW)
  by Barbara Gross Davis
  
  
• Research on U.S. Students Abroad - A Searchable Bibliography (NEW)
  by the USC Center for Global Education
  
  
• Doctoral Recipients from U.S. Universities - Summary Report, 1998 (NEW)
  by the National Science Foundation
  
  
• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (NEW)
  
  
• University Teaching: International Perspectives
  Edited by James JF Forest
  
  
• Report of the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University - Online book
  
  
• The Virtual University & Educational Opportunity -Issues of Equity and Access for the Next Generation
  A report produced by the College Board.
  
  
• Educating Army Leaders for thh 21st Century: Curriculum and Assessment at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point
  
  
• Management: Leading People and Organizations in the 21st Century
  by Gary Dessler
  
  
• Strategic Planning
  by Carter McNamara
  
  
• Presidential Essays: "Success Stories" - Strategies that Make a Difference at Thirteen Independent Colleges and Universities
  by the USA Group and the Council of Independent Colleges
  
  
• Financing Higher Education in the New Century
  State Higher Education Executive Officers report on current issues and problems
  
  
• Breaking the Social Contract
  Rand Corporation report on the financial condition of higher education
  
  
• Does Diversity Make a Difference? Three Research Studies on Diversity in College Classrooms
  by the American Council on Education and the American Association of University Professors
  
  
• Discovery and Innovation: Federal Research and Development Activities in the Fifty States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
  by Donna Fossum, Lawrence S. Painter, Valerie Williams, Allison Yezril, Elaine Newton, and David Trinkle (RAND Science and Technology)
  
  
• A Report on the Reflective Judgment Model, the Reflectve Judgment Interview (RJI) and the Reasoning about Current Issues Test (RCI)
  by Phil Wood
  
  
• Benchmarks for Measuring Quality in Distance Education Programs
  by the Institute of Higher Education Policy
  
  
• Developing a Distance Education Policy for 21st Century Learning
  by the American Council on Education
  
  
• Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges
  By Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline and Elizabeth DeBra
  
  
• Academic Duty
  by Donald Kennedy (reviewed by Albert Dekin)
  
  
• Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions Who Taught Classes to Undergraduates: Fall 1992
  by the National Center for Educational Statistics
  
  
• International Education Indicators A Time Series Perspective, 1985-1995
  (compares educational trends in OECD countries over time)
• Reinventing Undergraduate Education - report from the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University.
  
  
• Open Doors: A Report on Student Exchange
  by Todd Davis, Institute for International Education
  
  
• Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response
  edited by Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson
  
  
• The Doctorate: Talking About the Degree - An International Survey Report
  
  
• The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation Black Colleges, Title VI Compliance, and Post-Adams Litigation
  By M. Christopher Brown II
  
  
• Fiction to Fact: College Novels and the Study of Higher Education
  By John R. Thelin and Barbara K. Townsend
  
  
• Maverick Colleges: Ten Notable Experiments in American Undergradaute Eduation
  A study of the history of ten 19th and 20th century colleges (Antioch, Berea, Reed, Deep Springs, Chicago, Black Mountain, St. John's, Prescott, Evergreen, College of the Atlantic) that each constituted some innovative factor in American higher education. Online book edited by L. Jackson Newell and others at the University of Utah
  
  
• The Flexner Report

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• Publications of the BC Center for International Higher Education
  
  
• Publications from the Institute for Research on Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania, including Policy Perspectives and Landscape
  
  
• More new publications in higher education
  
  
• NCES Fast Facts for Higher Education
  
  
• Higher Education in Brazil by Simon Schwartzman
  
  
• Free directory of 150,000 printed periodicals

 




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• Higher Education Policy and Research Topics
• Analysis of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act
• Higher Education Washington, Inc.
  Publications include: Student Lending, Information Technology in Student Aid (ITSA) and Information Technology in Postsecondary Education (ITPE)
• Institute for Higher Education Policy
  A variety of publications on financial aid, distance learning, and other issues
• A primer on higher education literature
• Online Documents for the Study of U.S. Higher Education and Politics
• AGB Top Ten List of Public Policy Issues
• VarsityBooks Online
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education
  
  
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
    
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
    
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Community Colleges
    
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services
    
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
    
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