Week 6: Faculty Careers

• Cataldi, E.F., E.M. Bradburn, and M. Fahimi. National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04): Background Characteristics, Work Activities, and Compensation of Instructional Faculty and Staff: Fall 2003 (NCES 2006-176). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. (2005) 2004. Retrieved [2005] from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.
  [FacultyWork_2005.pdf]
• Anderson, Eugene L. The New Professoriate: Characteristics, Contributions, and Compensation, Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 2002
  Note: This is a book in pdf format (299kb)courtesy of the American Council on Education. You will find many chapters of considerable interest for this course.
  [2002_new_professoriate.pdf]
• College and University Faculty (US Department of Labor)
  [http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm]
• Bloland, Harland G. "Review Essay: The End(s) of Academic Labor," The Review of Higher Education 23.1 (1999) 107-118
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v023/23.1bloland.html]
• Fairweather, James S., "Myths and Realities of Academic Labor Markets," The Economics of Education Review (14:2) 1995, 179-192.
  [fairweather.pdf]
• Massy, William and Andrea Wilger. "Why Is Research the Rule? The Impact of Incentive Systems on Faculty Behavior," Change (March/April 2000)
  [research_incentive_2000_change.pdf]
• Fairweather, James S. "Beyond the Rhetoric: Trends in the Relative Value of Teaching and Research in Faculty Salaries," Journal of Higher Education, 76:4 (2005).
  [teachResearchSalariesfairweather2005.pdf]
   
  
• Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists. Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in Careers of Life Scientists, National Research Council. Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 1998
  [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309061806/html/index.html]
• The Postdoc Network
  [http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/career_stage/post_doc__1]
• Singer, Maxine, Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, September 2000)
  [NAS_2000_postdoc.html]
• Scott Smallwood. "Northwestern Faculty Told to Seek More Research Grants or Risk Losing Lab Space," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 26, 2001.
  [smallwood_labspace_chron_2001.html]
• Baldwin, Roger G., Christina J. Lunceford, and Kim E. Vanderlinden. "Faculty in the Middle Years: Illuminating an Overlooked Phase of Academic Life," Review of Higher Education, 29:1 (2005)
  [FacultyMidLifebaldwin2005.pdf]
• West, Martha and John W. Curtis. AAUP Faculty Gender Equity Indicators 2006. AAUP 2006.
  [AAUPGenderEquityIndicators2006.pdf]


• Toutkoushian, Robert K. and Marcia L. Bellas. "Faculty Time Allocations and Research Productivity: Gender, Race and Family Effects," The Review of Higher Education 22.4 (1999) 367-390
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v022/22.4bellas.html]
• Armenti, Carmen. "May Babies and Posttenure Babies: Maternal Decisions of Women Professors," The Review of Higher Education, (27.2:2004, 211–231)
  [armenti_Mothers_Tenure_2004.pdf]
• Ward, Kelly and Lisa Wolf-Wendel. "Academic Motherhood: Managing Complex Roles in Research Universities," The Review of Higher Education (27.2:2004, 233–257)
  [Ward_Acad_Motherhood_MUSE.pdf]
• Baer, Michael A. and Claire Van Ummersen. An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers (American Council on Education, 2005)
  [2005_tenure_flex_summaryACE.pdf]
• Heller, Scott. "The Lessons of a Lost Career," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 26, 2000
  [overtonChron.html]
• Wilson, Robin. "A Higher Bar for Earning Tenure," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 2001.
  [wilson_tenure_chron_2001.html]
• An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers (Executive Summary) American Council on Education, Office of Women in Higher Education, 2005.
  [2005_tenure_flex_summaryACE.pdf]

Promotion and Tenure

• American Association of University Professors. 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure With 1970 Interpretive Comments. Washington, D.C.: AAUP, 1940,1970.
  [http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/1940statement.htm]
• "Post-Tenure Review: An AAUP Response"
  [http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/PTR.htm]
• "AFT: Red flags rise on tenure", October 2002
  [http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/on_campus/2002/oct/clips.htm]
• Kolodny, Annette. "'60 Minutes' at the University of Arizona: The Polemic Against Tenure," New Literary History 27.4 (1996) 679-704.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/v027/27.4kolodny01.html]
• University of Delaware. Faculty Handbook. Section III. Personnel Policies for Faculty
  [http://www.udel.edu/HRSystemsAdmin/tenure.html]
• The University of California. Faculty Handbook
  [http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/handbook/]
• University of Virginia. Promotion and Tenure Policy
  [http://www.virginia.edu/provost/docs_policies/tenure.html]
• University of Michigan. Criteria for Appointment and Promotion of Instructional Staff
  [http://www.provost.umich.edu/faculty/handbook/5/5.B.html]
• Rice University. Faculty Rights, Privileges, and Responsibilities
  [http://fachandbook.rice.edu/fhb.cfm?doc_id=2751]
• Wellesley College. Faculty Appointment Policies
  [http://http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/bk1a11.html]
• Independent Report on Tenure-Related Processes at the University of Colorado," April 24, 2006 and Appendicies
  [Colorado_Tenure-Report-Final_Appendices_2006.pdf
  and Colorado_Tenure-Report-Final_Appendices_2006.pdf]
• Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2006
  [MLA_task_force_tenure_promotion_2006.pdf]

Part-Time Faculty

• Pamela Bach. "Part-Time Faculty Are Here to Stay," Planning for Higher Education, 27(3): 32–40 (Spring 1999)
  [http://www.scup.org/balch.htm]
• A Brief Overview of AFT and Part-time Faculty Organizing.
  [http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/parttime/history.htm]
• AAUP Contingent Faculty Index, 2006 and Appendicies I  II  III   IV
  [Contingent_IncreasinglyContingentFaculty2006.pdf]
  [ContingentAppendix2.pdf, ContingentAppendix2.pdf, ContingentAppendix3.pdf, ContingentAppendix4.pdf]

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Week 7: Financial Structure of Universities

• Winston, Gordon C. and Ethan G. Lewis. "Physical Capital and Capital Service Costs in US Colleges and Universities: 1993," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-35 February 1996.
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-35.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. "Capital and Capital Costs in 2700 US Colleges and Universities," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-33 December 1995.
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-33.pdf]
• Carbone, Jared C. and Gordon C. Winston. "Saving, Wealth, Performance, and Revenues in U.S. Colleges and Universities," Review of Higher Education, 28:1 (2004)
  [SavingRevenueCollegescarboneWinston2005.pdf]
  
• Selingo, Jeffrey. "The Disappearing State in Public Higher Education," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 28, 2003
  [selingo_statecuts_chron_03.html]
• McPherson, Michael S. and Morton Owen Schapiro. "Expenditures and Revenues in American Higher Education," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-27 September 1994
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-27.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C., Jared C. Carbone, and Ethan G. Lewis. "What’s Been Happening to Higher Education? A Reference Manual 1986-87 to 1994-95," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, March 1996
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-47.pdf]
• McPherson, Michael S., Morton Owen Shapiro, and Gordon C. Winston. "The Economic Analogy," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-37 June 1996
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-37.pdf]
• Johnstone, D. Bruce. "Patterns of Finance: Revolution, Evolution, or More of the Same?"   The Review of Higher Education 21.3 (1998) 245-255.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v021/21.3johnstone.html]
• Robst, John. "Cost Efficiency in Public Higher Education Institutions," The Journal of Higher Education (72:6, 2001).
  [robst_cost_efficiency_2001.pdf]
• Harter, John F. R., John A. Wade, and Thomas G. Watkins. An Examination of Costs at Four-Year Public Colleges and Universities between 1989 and 1998, Review of Higher Education, 28:3 (2005)
  [CostsPublUnivharter2005.pdf]
• College Board. Trends in Student Aid in Trends in Higher Education, College Board, 2005.
  [trends_aid_05.pdf]
• Baum, Sandy and Kathleen Payea. Trends in College Pricing in Trends in Higher Education, College Board, 2005.
  [trends_college_pricing_05.pdf]
  
• Hill, Catharine, Gordon Winston, and Stephanie Boyd. "Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices At Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities," Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-66r, January, 2004
  [Affordability_COFHE_Prices_Winston_DP-66r.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. and Catharine B. Hill. "Access to the Most Selective Private1 Colleges by High-Ability, Low-Income Students: Are they out there?" Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-69, October, 2005. [Access_AOFHE_Winston_2005_DP-69.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. "The Positional Arms Race in Higher Education," Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, Discussion Paper No. 54, April 2000
  [http://www.williams.edu:803/Mellon/DPs/DP-54.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C., "A Guide to Measuring College Costs," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-46, November 1997
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-46.pdf]
• Lewis, Ethan G. and Gordon C. Winston. "Subsidies, Costs, Tuition, and Aid in US Higher Education: 1986-87 to 1993-94," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-41r, April 1997
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-41.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. "College Costs: Subsidies, Intuition, and Policy," The Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, DP-45, November 1997
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-45.pdf]
• Brownstein, Andrew. "Upping the Ante for Student Aid," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 2001.
  [brownstein_stud_aid_chron_2001.html]
• ACE Center for Policy Analysis. Federal Student Loan Debt: 1993 to 2004. Issue Brief. American Council on Education, June 2005.
  [ACE_studentloans_2004.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. "Is Princeton Acting Like a Church or a Car Dealer?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2001.
  [winston_princeton_chron_2001.html]
• Dickeson, Robert C., ed. "Course correctioins: Experts offer solutions to the college cost crisis," College Costs: Making Opportunity Affordable, Lumina Foundation for Education, 2005.
  [Collegecosts_Oct2005.pdf]
• Trends in College Pricing.  The College Board, 2006
  [trends_college_pricing_06ColBoard.pdf]
• Bradburd, Ralph M. and Duncan P. Mann. "Wealth in Higher Education Institutions," Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Jul.-Aug., 1993), pp. 472-493.
  [bradburd_wealth_1993.pdf]
• Winston, Gordon C. "For-Profit Higher Education: Godzilla or Chicken Little?" Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, Discussion Paper No. 49, November 1998
  [http://www.williams.edu/Mellon/DPs/DP-49.pdf]
• John L. Pulley. "How Eckerd's 52 Trustees Failed to See Two-Thirds of Its Endowment Disappear," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2000.
  [pulley_eckerd_chron_2000.html]
• Van Der Werf, Martin. "More Colleges Are Seeing the Virtues of Merging," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2001.
  [vanderwerf_merge_chron_2001.html]
• Van Der Werf, Martin. "Mount Senario's Final Act," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 14, 2002.
  [college_close2_chron_061402.html]
• Van Der Werf, Martin. "Junk-Bond Colleges," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2003.
  [vanderwerf_bondrating_chron_03.html]
• Zhao, Yilu. "More Small Colleges Dropping Out," The New York Times, May 7, 2002.
  [college_close_nyt_050702.html]
• O'Neill, James M., "Survival 101: Small private colleges on the financial brink," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2001.
  [O'Neill_survival101_2001.html]
• Kaufman, Roger T. and Geoffrey Woglom. "Financial Changes and Optimal Spending Rates among Top Liberal Arts Colleges, 1996-2001," Review of Higher Education, 28:3 (2005)
  [FinanceEliteCollegeskaufman2005.pdf]
• Hechinger, John. "Philanthropy: When $26 Billion Isn't Enough," Wall Street Journal (December 17, 2005).
  [Endowment_WSJ_121705.pdf]
• Hamermesh, Daniel S. "Four Questions on the Labor Economics of Higher Education," Paper for the Spellings Commission, November 9, 2005.
  [hammermesh_cost_benefit2005SpellingsCommission.pdf]
• St. John, Edward P., Michael B. Paulsen, and Deborah Faye Carter. "Diversity, College Costs, and Postsecondary Opportunity: An Examination of the Financial Nexus between College Choice and Persistence for African Americans and Whites," The Journal of Higher Education, 76:5 (2005)
  [StJohn_diversity_cost_blackvswhite_2005.pdf]

University Examples

• The Stanford University Budget Plan Book, 2005-2006
  [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/budget/plans/plan06.html]
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Budget (2003-)
  UMass Amherst Budget Archive (2003- )
  [http://www.umass.edu/budget/
  http://www.umass.edu/budget/archive/index.html]
• The University of Florida Money Tree: Sources and Uses of Funds, 1997-98.
  [http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~lombardi/edu00/moneytree9798.html]
• Distribution of University of Florida Budget by Function and Source, 1997-98.
  [http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~lombardi/edu00/moneypie9798.html]
• Indiana University Financial Information
  [http://factbook.indiana.edu/fbook04/finances/budget.shtml]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Costs, II-6, 9/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0996.htm]

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Week 8: Budget Systems

• Swenk, Jean. "Planning Failures: Decision Cultural Clashes," The Review of Higher Education 23.1 (1999) 1-21
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v023/23.1swenk.html]
• Boyd, William L. "Zero-Base Budgeting: The Texas Experience," Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 53, No. 4. (Jul. - Aug., 1982), pp. 429-438
  [http://www.jstor.org/]
• Koch, James V. "TQM: why is its impact in higher education so small?," The TQM Magazine, 15:5 (2003 )
  [Koch_TQM_fads.html]
• O'Neill, James M. "Survival 101: Small Private Colleges on the Financial Brink," Philadelphia Inquirer. January 28, 2001.
  [O'Neill_survival101_2001.html]

Responsibility Center Management

• Budget Reform Resources: Urbana Campus.
  [http://www.obfs.uillinois.edu/obfshome.cfm?level=2&Path=budgeting&XMLData=reform]
• Cantor, Nancy E.  "Text of Provost Nancy Cantor's Seante Assembly Speech [on VCM]," The University Record (University of Michigan) 11/19/97
  [http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9798/Nov19_97/speech.htm]
• West, J.Anthony, Vincent Seidita, Judy Di Mattia, and Edward L. Whalen. "RCM as a Catalyst: Study Examines Use of Responsibility Center Management on Campus," NACUBO Business Officer, August 1997; and Survey Results
  [1997_08_RCM.pdf; 1997_08_RCM_survey.pdf]
• Responsibility Center Management at Indiana University.
  [http://weathertop.bry.indiana.edu/mas/rcm/
• Wilms,Wellford W.;  Cheryl Teruya; and Marybeth Walpole. "Fiscal Reform at UCLA. The Clash of Accountability and Academic Freedom."  From UCLA website, originally published in September/October 1997 issue of Change
  [http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/gseisdoc/change.html]

Performance Budget Management

• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS-The Bank, III-1, 9/1997.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0997.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. In Support of Teaching and Research: The University of Florida Bank. 1999
  [jvlbank1.html]

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Week 9:  Measurement

• Lombardi, et al. The Top American Research Universities. Gainesville: TheCenter, University of Florida, 2000 2001 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  [http://thecenter.ufl.edu/research.html]
• Craig, Diane D., MUPS-Efficiency, V:2, 2/1999
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0299.htm]
• University of Florida Bank: Three-Year Bank Tables
  [00.htm]
  University of Florida Bank: Three-Year Bank Spreadsheet
  [3yrBankJVL1.xls]
• Dundar, Halil and Darrell R. Lewis, "Departmental Productivity in American Universities: Economies of Scale and Scope," The Economics of Education Review (14:2) 1995, 119-144.
  [undarLewis.pdf]
• Kennedy, Peter E. and John J. Siegfried, "Class Size and Achievement in Introductory Economics: Evidence from the TUCE III Data," The Economics of Education Review (16:4) 1997, 387-394
  [kennedySiegfried.pdf]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Classrooms, I-3, 10/1995.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_1095.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Excess Hours, I-5, 12/1995.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_1295.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Transfer Students, II-1, 1/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0196.htm]
• Craig, Diane D. MUPS—Universal Tracking, IV-1, 2/1998.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0298.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. "Students, Universities, and Graduation RateS—Sometimes Simple Things Don’t Work," Ideas in Action, Florida TaxWatch, IV:3 (March 1997).
  [http://jvlone.com/gradrate3.html]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Teaching, I-2, 9/1995.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0995.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—The Ph.D., III-2 9/1997.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_090397.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Research, I-4, 11/1995.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_1195.htm]
• Monk, James. "The Returns to Individual and College Characteristics: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth," Economics of Education Review, 19:3 (2000), 279-289
  [monk.pdf]
• Massy , William F. and Robert Zemsky. "A Utility Model for Teaching Load Decisions in Academic Departments," The Economics of Education Review (16:4) 1997, 349-365.
  [masseyZemsky.pdf]
• The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment,
  Volume 1: Definitions and Assessment Methods for Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing
  [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000195.pdf]
  Volume 2: Selected Institutions Utilizing Assessment Results
  [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000196.pdf]
• Peterson, Marvin W., Marne K. Einarson, "What are Colleges Doing about Student  Assessment? Does it Make a Difference?" The Journal of Higher Education, (72:6, 2001).
  [peterson_stud_assessment_2001.pdf]
• Astin, Alexander W. and Leticia Oseguera, Degree Attainment Rates at American Colleges and Universities, Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 2002
  [astin_oseguera_degreerate_2002_b.pdf]
• Bougnol, M.-L. and J.H. Dulá. "Validating DEA as a Ranking Tool: An Application of DEA to Assess Performance in Higher Education," (prepublication paper, 2004).
  [UFLuniversities.pdf]
• Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society. The College Board, 2004.
  [EducationPays2004.pdf]
• Dwyer, Carol A., Catherine M. Millett, and David G. Payne. A Culture of Evidence: Postsecondary Assessment and Learning Outcomes. Recommendations to Policymakers and the Higher Education Community, Educational Testing Service, 2006.
  [cultureofevidence_ETS_2006.pdf]
• "Applicants to Selective Colleges Show Increasing Reluctance to Disclose Their Race," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, May 30, 2006.
  [RaceDisclosure_colleges_2006.pdf]
• "The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Autumn 2005
  [2005freshmensurveyBlacks.pdf]

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Week 10: Measuring Quality

• Adelman, Clifford. "The Propaganda of Numbers," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2006
  [PropagandaNumbersAdelmanChron101306.html]
• Experiments in International Benchmarking of U.S. Research Fields. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences. Washington, D.C., 2000.
  [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068983/html/]
• National AAU Peer Benchmarking for Quality at the University of Florida
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/aaubench.htm]
• Toutkoushian, Robert K., Halil Dundar, and William E. Becker. "The National Research Council Graduate Program Ratings: What Are They Measuring?" The Review of Higher Education 21.4 (1998) 427-443.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v021/21.4toutkoushian.html]
• Ehrenberg, Ronald G., and Peter J. Hurst, "The 1995 Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model," The Economics of Education Review (17:2) 1998, 137-148.
  [ehrenbergHurst.pdf]
• Parker, Linda. The Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program: An Assessment of Benefits and Outcomes.  Arlington, Va: NSF, Engineering Educaton and Centers Division, 1997.
  [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9840/nsf9840.htm]
• Brooks, Rachelle L. "Measuring University Quality," Review of Higher Education, 29:1 (2005).
  [MeasuringQualitybrooks2005.pdf]
• Hermanowicz, Joseph C. "Classifying Universities and Their Departments: A Social World Perspective," The Journal of Higher Education, 76:1 (2005)
  [ClassifyingUnivDepts_hermanowicz2005.pdf]
• AACSB. The Business School Rankings Dilemma: A Report from a Task Force of AACSB International’s Committee on Issues in Management Education AACSB International: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, 2005.
  [RankingAACSBReport2005.pdf]
• DeAngelo, Harry, Linda DeAngelo, and Jerold L. Zimmerman. "What's Really Wrong with U.S. Business Schools?" Working Paper.
  [Rank_BSchools_2005.pdf]
• Bialik, Carl. "Small Change by U.S. News Leads To New Controversy in Rankings," Wall Street Journal: The Numbers Guy, April 7, 2005.
  [WSJ_law_ranking_040705.pdf]
• Chang, Gordon C. and J.R. Osborn. "Spectacular Colleges and Spectacular Rankings: The 'US News' rankings of American 'best' colleges," Journal of Consumer Culture, 5:3 (2005).
  [Chang_USNEWS_2005.pdf]

Teaching

• England, James, Pat Hutchings, and Wilbert J. McKeachie. The Professional Evaluation of Teaching. Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies, Occasional Paper No. 33 (n.d.).
  [http://www.acls.org/op33.htm][Accessed 6/98]
• Eide, Eric, Dominic J. Brewer and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. "Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Evidence on the Effects of Undergraduate College Quality on Graduate School Attendance." Economics of Education Review (17:4) 1998, 371-376
  [eide.pdf]
• Monk, James. "The Returns to Individual and College Characteristics: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth," Economics of Education Review. 19 (2000); 279-289.
  [monk.pdf]
• Beatty, Alexandra; M. R. C. Greenwood; and Robert L. Linn, Eds. Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions. Steering Committee for the Workshop on Higher Education Admissions, National Research Council. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
  [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065976/html/]
• Harvey C. Mansfield, "Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 6, 2001.
  [mansfield_gradeharvard_chron_2001.html]
• Kohn, Alfie. "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 2002
  [Kohn_gradeinflate_chron_02.html]
• Fogg, Piper. "Harvard U. Will Make Professors Justify Their Approach to Grading," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 24, 2001.
  [harvard_grade_chron_102401.html]
• Rosovsky, Henry and Matthew Hartley, Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing? Grade Inflation and Letters of Recommendation, Cambridge, Mass: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
  [http://www.amacad.org/publications/monographs/Evaluation_and_the_Academy.pdf]
  See also the other articles on this subject collected at:
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The list appears as a list of of items about a third of the way down this page
  [http://www.amacad.org/publications/occasional.aspx]
• Bar, Talia and Asaf Zussman. "Quest for Knowledge and Pursuit of Grades: Grade Information and Inflation at an Ivy League School," CHERI, Cornell University, January 2005.
  [cheri_wp61_gradeInflation_2005.pdf]
• Zhang, Liang. "Do Measures of College Quality Matter? The Effect of College Quality on Graduates' Earnings," Review of Higher Education, 28:4 (2005)
  [QualityOnEarningzhang2005.pdf]
• Barrow, Lisa and Cecilia Elena Rouse. "Does College Still Pay?" The Economists' Voice, 2:4 (2005).
  [educational_value.pdf]

Student Life

• de Vitry, Jacques. "Life of the Students at Paris" [E-text from the 13th century writer: Jacobus de Vitriaco: Hist. occid. Bk.II, Ch.VII. Latin., trans. in University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of History: Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European history, published for the Dept. of History of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1897?-1907?].Vol II:3, pp. 19-20.
  [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vitry1.html]
• The Student Learning Imperative: Implications for Student Affairs. Washington: American College Personnel Association, 1996.
  [http://www.acpa.nche.edu/sli/sli.htm]
• Principles of Good Practice for Student Affairs Washington: American College Personnel Association, ca. 1997
  [http://www.acpa.nche.edu/pgp/principle.htm]
• NACADA Statement of Core Values of Academic Advising, 1994.
  [http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Core-Values.htm]
• Bishop, John H. "Nerds and Freaks: A Theory of Student Culture and Norms," Brookings Papers on Education Policy (2003).
  [nerds_freaks_2003.1bishop.pdf]
• Gladwell, Malcolm. "Brain Candy: Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?," New Yorker, May 16, 2005.
  [The New Yorker_ PopCulture051605.pdf]
• Astin, Alexander W. "The Changing American College Student: Thirty-Year Trends, 1966-1996," The Review of Higher Education 21.2 (1998) 115-135.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v021/21.2astin.html]
• Astin, Alexander W. and Leticia Oseguera. "The Declining "Equity" of American Higher Education," Review of Higher Education, 27:3 (2004)
  [DeclineEquityastin2004.pdf]
• Klein, Julia M. "Merit's Demerits," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2005.
  [2005_ Merit's Demerits.pdf]
• Karabel, Jerome. "The Chosen Few: the elite colleges are more diverse than ever, but the students being admitted are still overwhelmingly wealthy," Boston Globe, September 4, 2005.
  [The Chosen Few - The Boston Globe.pdf]
• Golden, Daniel. "Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?" Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2006.
  [AsianAdmissions_WSJ_111106.pdf]
• Samuelson, Robert J. "How We Dummies Succeed," Reprinted with permission from Washington Post, September 6, 2006.
  [Samuelson_USeducation_2006.pdf]

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Week 12: Support Services and Special Units

Land Grant

• The Land-Grant Tradition. Washington, D.C.: NASULGC, n.d. (accessed 12/03).
  [http://www.nasulgc.org/publications/Land_Grant/Land_Grant_Main.htm]

Medicine

• U.S. Medical School Faculty. Association of American Medical Colleges.
  [http://www.aamc.org/data/facultyroster/reports.htm]
• Academic Medicine: The Backbone of the Nation's Health Care System.  Association of American Medical Colleges.
  [http://http://www.aamc.org/patientcare/start.htm]
• Focusing on Quality in a Changing Health Care System. Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1997.
  [http://www.nas.edu/21st/health/]

Sports

• "The Sports Imperative in America’s Research Universities," in The Top American Research Universities (2003)
  [http://thecenter.ufl.edu/TheSportsImperative.pd]
• NCAA: Purposes, History, Governance Structure, Finances, Compliance.
  [http://www.ncaa.org/about/purposes.html]
  [http://www.ncaa.org/about/history.html]
  [http://www.ncaa.org/databases/governancestructure]
  [http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/about_ncaa/budget_and_finances/index.html]
  [http://www.ncaa.org/about/compliance.html]
• Amato, Louis, John M. Gandar, Irvin B. Tucker and Richard A. Zuber,  "Bowls Versus Playoffs: The Impact on Football Player Graduation Rates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association," The Economics of Education Review (15:2) 1996, 187-195.
  [amato.pdf]
• The University of Florida Self Study Report for NCAA Division I Athletics Certification Interim Report, 2002
  [http://gatorzone.com/compliance/pdf/compliance/2002_interim_report.pdf]

Fundraising

• Baade, Robert A. and Jeffrey O. Sundberg, "What Determines Alumni Generosity?" The Economics of Education Review (15:1)1996, 75-81.
  [baade.pdf]
• Cunningham, Brendan M. and Carlena K. Cochi-Ficano. "The Determinants of Donative Revenue Flows from Alumni of Higher Eduation: An Empirical Inquiry," Journal of Human Resources, 37:3 (2002).
  [GivingCharacteristics2002.pdf
• AGB-CASE. Illustrative Memorandum of Understanding Between a Foundation and Host Institution or System. Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Association of Governing Boards, 2005.
  [MOU_AGB-CASE.pdf]

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Week 13: Competition, Regulation, and Governance

• Lombardi, et al. The Myth of Number One: Indicators of Research University Performance (2001),
  [http://thecenter.ufl.edu/MythNumberOne.pdf]
  University Organization, Governance, and Competitiveness (2002)
  [http://thecenter.ufl.edu/UniversityOrganization.pdf] in
  The Top American Research Universities. Gainesville: TheCenter, University of Florida, 2000- .
  [http://thecenter.ufl.edu/]
• Usher, Alex and Massimo Savino. A World of Difference: A Global Survey of University League Tables, Educational Policy Institute, 2006.
  [WorldRankings_2006.pdf]

Research Competition

• Arnone, Michael, The Wannabes, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 3, 2003
  [arnone_wannabe_chron_2003.html]
• Feller, Irwin. "The Determinants of Research Competitiveness Among Universities," in Albert H. Teich, ed., Competitiveness in Academic Research. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996, p. 35-72.
  [feller.pdf]
• Goldman, Charles A., Susan M. Gates, and Dominic J. Brewer. "Prestige or Reputation: Which Is a Sound Investment?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2001.
  [prestige_chron_100501.html]
• Institute for Research on Higher Education (IRHE). "Resurveying the Terrain: Refining the Taxonomy for the Postsecondary Market," Change, March/April 2001.
  [taxonomy_2001_change.pdf]
• Promoting the University's Mission by Increasing Federal Grant and Contract Funding. Tulane University, ca. 1998
  [http://www.tulane.edu/%7Egovtaff/publications/whiteppr.pdf]
• Guide to R&D Data -Historical Trends in Federal R&D (1955- ). American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C.; 200-.
  [http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/guihist.htm]
• Zivney, Terry L. and William J. Bertin. "Publish or Perish: What the Competition is Really Doing," Journal of Finance, Vol. 47, No. 1. (Mar., 1992), pp. 295-329.
  [zivney.pdf]
• Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. New York: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 200-.
  [http://www.gf.org/index.html]
• Wilson, Robin. "Ohio State 'Taxes' Departments to Make a Select Few Top-Notch," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 1, 2001.
  [wilson_ohiou_chron_2001.html]
• NSF Guide to Programs. Arlington, Va.: National Science Foundation, current
  [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/browse_all_funding.jsp]
• Steinberger, Michael. "Harvard Pulls Ahead in Economics Game," The New York Times, December 27, 2001.
  [harvard_econ_nyt_122701.html]
• Kim, E. Han, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales. "Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?" NEBR Working Paper Series, 2006. [Elite_Univ_faculty_econ_NBER_2006w12245.pdf]

Regulation

• Sabloff, Paula L. W.  "Another Reason Why State Legislatures Will Continue to Restrict Public University Autonomy," The Review of Higher Education 20.2 (1997) 141-162.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v020/20.2sabloff.html]
• Skolnik, Michael L. and Glen A. Jones. "A Comparative Analysis of Arrangements for State Coordination of Higher Education in Canada and the United States," Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 63, No. 2. (Mar. - Apr., 1992), pp. 121-142.
  [skolnik.pdf]
• Aper, Jeffery P. and Dennis E. Hinkle. "State Policies for Assessing Student Outcomes: A Case Study with Implications for State and Institutional Authorities," Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 62, No. 5. (Sep. - Oct., 1991), pp. 539-555.
  [aper.pdf]
• Skolnik, Michael L. "How Academic Program Review Can Foster Intellectual Conformity and Stifle Diversity of Thought and Method," Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 60, No. 6. (Nov. - Dec., 1989), pp. 619-643.
  [skolnik2.pdf]
• Michael, Steve O. "Restructuring U.S. Higher Education: Analyzing Models for Academic Program Review and Discontinuation," The Review of Higher Education 21.4 (1998) 377-404.
  [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v021/21.4michael.html]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—State Support, I-1, 8/1995.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0895.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Research Benefits,   II-2, 2/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0296.htm]
• Craig. MUPS—The UF-SUS Team,   IV-2, 3/1998.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0398.htm]

Accreditation

• Hagerty, Bonnie M. K. and Joan S. Stark. "Comparing Educational Accreditation Standards in Selected Professional Fields,"  Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 60, No. 1. (Jan. - Feb., 1989), pp. 1-20.
  [hagerty.pdf]
• Gose, Ben. "A Radical Approach to Accreditation," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 1, 2002
  [gose_accreditalternative_chron_02.html]
• Principles of Accreditation. Decatur, Ga.: Commission on Colleges. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, current
  [http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/PrinciplesOfAccreditation.PDF]
• Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions: An Overview.
  [http://www.ncahlc.org/download/2003Overview.pdf]
• ABET: Accreditation. Baltimore: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
  [http://www.abet.org/forms.shtml]
• CHEA. Recognition Policy (Washington, D.C.,8)
  [http://www.chea.org/recognition/CHEA_Recognition_Policy_and_Procedures.pdf]
• McMurtrie, Beth . "Assessing the Group That Assesses Accreditation." The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 1999.
  [cheaChron.html]
• Foster, Andrea L. "On the Web, It's Easy to Earn Straight A's," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2003
  [foster_earnAonWeb_chron_03.html]

  Student Competition

• Lapovsky, Lucie. "Phantom Dollars: Findings from 1996 NACUBO Tuition Discounting Survey,"  NACUBO Business Officer, March 1997; and Tables.
  [1997_03_phantom_dollars.pdf; 1997_03_phantom_dollars_tables.pdf]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS-Student Quality, II-3, 3/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0396.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS-Financial Aid, II-4, 4/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0496.htm]
• Lombardi and Capaldi. MUPS—Jobs, II-5, 6/1996.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0696.htm]
• Craig. MUPS- Undergraduates,  IV-3, 5/1998.
  [http://www.ir.ufl.edu/mups/issue_0598.htm]
• Lombardi, "Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies," The Chronicle of Higher Education: Point of View (4/16/99 )
  [http://jvlone.com/gradedchron.html]
• Selingo, Jeffrey. "Mission Creep?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 2002.
  [honorscollege_chron_053102.html]
• Brownstein, Andrew. "Ambitious Colleges End the Ivy Lock on Prestigious Fellowships," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14, 2001.
  [fellowship_chron_09142001.html]
• Smallwood, Scott. "Stipends Are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate Students," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2001.
  [gradstipend_chron_092801.html]
• Quirk, Matthew. "College 2005: The Best Class Money Can Buy: The rise of the "enrollment manager" and the cutthroat quest for competitive advantage. The secret weapon: financial-aid leveraging," Atlantic Monthly, November 2005.
  [The Atlantic Online _ November 2005 _ The Best Class Money.pdf]
• Douthat, Ross. "College 2005: Does Meritocracy Work? Not if society and colleges keep failing to distinguish between wealth and merit," Atlantic Monthly, November 2005.
  [Meritocracy_Atlantic_11_2005.pdf]
• Brooks, David. "The Merits of Meritocracy: Can self-fulfillment build character?" The Atlantic Monthly, May 2002.
  [The Atlantic Online _ May 2002 _ The Merits of Meritocracy.pdf]
• Gladwell, Malcolm. "Getting In: The social logic of Ivy League admissions," The New Yorker: A Critic at Large, October 10, 2005.
  [The New Yorker_ ivyAdmissions101005.pdf]
• Bollag, Burton. "True to Their Roots: Catholic women's colleges, appealing to a new student population, rediscover their mission of serving the under served," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2005.
  [2005_ True to Their Roots_chron.pdf]
• England, Paula and Su Li. "Desegregation Stalled. The Changing Gender Composition of College Majors, 1971-2002," Gender & Society, 20:5 (2006)
  [Gender_majors_2006.pdf]
• Golden, Daniel. "How Lowering the Bar Helps Colleges Prosper. Duke and Brown Universities Rise in Prestige In Part by Wooing Kids of Hollywood, Business Elite," New York Times, September 9, 2006.
  [Admissions_NYT_090906.pdf]
• Student Debt and the Class of 2005: Average Debt by State, Sector, and School, The Project on Student Debt, August 2006.
  [StudentDebtreport_FINAL_2006.pdf]
• Pennington, Bill. "The New Gender Divide Small Colleges, Short of Men, Embrace Football," New York Times, July 10, 2006
  [Small Colleges, Short of Men, Embrace Football - New York Times.htm]
• Lewin, Tamar. "The New Gender Divide. At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust," New York Times, July 9, 2006.
  [At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust - New York Times.htm]
• Applebome, Peter. "The Final Four" [men's colleges], The New York Times, April 23, 2006. [FinalFourMensCollegesNYT4_23_06.pdf]
• "Rebuilding the American dream machine; Higher education and the poor." (The City University of New York), The Economist, (US) Jan 21, 2006.
  [eliteEducationUS_Economist2006.pdf]
• Finder, Alan. "Aid Lets Smaller Colleges Ask, Why Pay for Ivy League Retail?" New York Times, January 1, 2006.
  [TuitionDiscount_Merit_NYT2005.pdf]
• Long, Bridget Terry. Paying for College. The Rising Cost of Higher Education, MassINC, 2006
  [PayingForCollege_MassINC_2006.pdf]
• Davies, Scott and Floyd M. Hammack. "The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S.," The Journal of Higher Education, V76:1 (2005)
  [Davies_studentcompetition_CanadaUS_2005.pdf]