Who Are Conservative Students?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Binder ◽  
Kate Wood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Class Background ◽  
The University ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter asks who conservative students are by drawing on two sources. First are the surveys administered by the University of California at Los Angeles's Higher Education Research Institute to thousands of incoming college freshmen and graduating seniors during the 2000s. The second source is the data collected on different campuses, designed to shed light on the formative years of the students and alumni/ae in their families and their schools, their early experiences with conservatism, and how they acquired the politics bug. Using this information, the chapter examines the students' demographics, political identifications, precollege political styles, ideological orientations, religious affiliation, and social class background as well as their families' political backgrounds.

scholarly journals Higher Education as a Field of Research in the Portuguese Speaking Countries: Insights on an Emerging Scientifc Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Langa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
Shed Light

This article examines the preconditions for the emergence of higher education as a feld of research in the Portuguese speaking countries. It uses various sources of data, including the worldwide inventory on higher education by the Center for International Higher Education of Boston College, to map the existing infrastructure for the establishment of higher education as new scientifc feld. This includes research centres, academic programmes, journals, and professional and academic associations. The article shows that higher education has become a complex social institution, which, according to Altbach (2014), is the condition that leads to the constitution of a new scientifc feld. Bourdieu’s theory of feld is used to shed light on the sociological conditions for the establishment of new felds. The article concludes that the prerequisites for an emerging feld of higher education research in the Portuguese speaking countries are in place, but further research is required to establish whether the magnet effects of a functioning feld have been ignited. Cet article examine les conditions pour l’émergence de l’enseignement supérieur comme discipline de recherche dans les pays lusophones. Il utilise des sources variées pour schématiser les infrastructures nécessaires à l’institution de l’enseignement supérieur comme nouvelle discipline scientifque, y compris l’inventaire mondial sur l’enseignement supérieur du Center for International Higher Education à Boston College. Celui-ci inclut les centres de recherche, les programmes universitaires, les journaux, et les associations professionnelles et académiques. Cet article démontre que l’enseignement supérieur est devenu une institution sociale complexe, ce qui, d’après Altbach (2014), est la condition qui mène à la constitution d’une nouvelle discipline scientifque. En conclusion, cet article afrme que les prérequis à l’émergence d’une discipline de recherche sur l’enseignement supérieur dans les pays lusophones sont remplis, mais il faudrait effectuer plus de travaux de recherche pour vérifer que les effets magnétiques nécessaires au bon fonctionnement d’une discipline de recherche ont bien été enclenchés.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Student Variables that Predict Retention: Recent Research and New Developments

NASPA Journal ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Reason
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Changing Demographics

This article reviews recent research related to the study of college student retention, specifically examining research related to individual student demographic characteristics. The increasing diversity of undergraduate college students requires a new, thorough examination of those student variables previously understood to predict retention. The retention literature focuses on research conducted after 1990 and emphasizes the changing demographics in higher education. Research related to a relatively new variable —the merit-index—also is reviewed, revealing potentially promising, but currently mixed results.

Borders, paths and orientations: assembling the higher education research field as doctoral students and supervisors

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-437
Author(s):  
Tai Peseta ◽  
Giedre Kligyte ◽  
Amani Bell ◽  
Brittany Hardiman ◽  
Delyse Leadbeatter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Higher Education Research

Philosophy’s rematch: A new conceptualization of the study of higher education

2021 ◽  
pp. 147402222110029
Author(s):  
Gabe A Orona
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Virtue Epistemology ◽  
Bayesian Epistemology ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Research Philosophy ◽  
Development Of Students

In recent decades, philosophy has been identified as a general approach to enhance the maturity of higher education as a field of study by enriching theory and method. In this article, I offer a new set of philosophical recommendations to spur the disciplinary development of higher education, departing from previous work in several meaningful ways. Due to their deep and useful connections to higher education research, philosophy of measurement, virtue epistemology, and Bayesian epistemology are introduced and discussed in relation to their conceptual association and potential practical influence on the study of higher education. The culmination of these points signals a learnercentered lens focused on the development of students.

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