Product Description: This report synthesizes the literature about faculty performance, exploring variations by gAnder and race in publishing productivity. It probes questions about the equity of traditional measures in publication quality and quantity. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report provides a brief history of the most recent wave of assessment in higher education, particularly focused on the faculty role in assessment. It traces major conceptual, methodological, political and policy advances in assessment over the past decade...read more

Product Description: Summarizes state studies of faculty workload and research on faculty productivity. Discusses problems with existing study designs and their results. Offers solutions with greater potential for improving productivity, with a focus on student learning, curricula, and mission. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book is about using conflict to create student involvement in learning, intellectual curiosity, intrinsic motivation to learn, higher achievement and higher level reasoning. Conflict is the heart of all drama, a major tool for capturing interest and attention...read more

Product Description: Student discipline is an issue that deserves careful examination and reasonable solutions. This report features both--with a focus on finding new trAnds in dealing with student misconduct. Includes examples of programs that strive to enhance student development through a specific institutional mission...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report uses a model that views various strategies for improving instruction as helping motivate individual faculty members to improve their teaching by changing (and maintaining) certian of their instructional attitudes and practices (through the process of unfreezing, changing, and refreezing certian attitudes and behaviors)...read more

Product Description: Reviews key principles for improving quality in higher education institutions. Discusses methods that should be implemented as a total system approach and offers a new vision of how institutions operate.

Product Description: Many believe that, by closing the leadership gap, institutions would become more centered on process (often viewed as feminized concerns) rather than focused on tasks and outcomes (attributed to masculine leadership). This report explores the past and present of women's roles in higher education, analyzing the lack of women's leadership and the reasons behind the phenomenon...read more