by HER | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Allison Palmadessa The traditional purpose of higher education is to serve the public by creating knowledge for free exchange for the benefit of all members of a given society. With the dominance of the global knowledge based economy, academic capitalism is forcing...
by HER | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Jessica Baron This study examines the current backlash against affirmative action policy in higher education in the courts and posits, through a Critical Race theory framework, why Whites often describe the policy as being unfair. The historical context of affirmative...
by HER | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Daniel Boden, Lisa D. McNair, and Maura Borrego This study explores why interdisciplinary collaborations succeed or fail. We used Tannen’s (1993) discourse method of frame analysis to uncover individuals’ implicit assumptions toward interdisciplinary collaboration and...
by HER | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Talia Carroll I am excited to welcome readers to our eleventh volume of Higher Education in Review. As I reflect on the past year of serving as Editor of Higher Education in Review, I recognize that change and adapting to it was rather central to this volume. At the...
by HER | Feb 14, 2013 | HERO
Yvette E. Beersingh, Carrol S. Perrino, and R. Trent Haines This study examined the predictive factors of success in a STEM gateway mathematics course among first-year students at an historically Black institution (HBI). The study consisted of 758 students; 49% males...
