Learning Resources

Abstract: What the past twenty years of research have revealed about how colleges affect students. Subtitles: Implications for colleges; The importance of people; Arranging the environment; Improving the learning scene. Pull quotes: "Most surprising was that elite colleges and universities have scarcely any greater impact than other institutions." "Impact is partly a result of the way a student exploits the people, programs, facilities, and experiences of a college." "Any college can improve its outcomes, its 'quality'." "The first semester is a pivotal time." "Part-time jobs on campus have a net positive impact." "Institutions should avoid hugh residential towers." "A major shift in decision-making by administrators is needed."

Abstract: Book Review: Feminism Without Illusion, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 326 pages. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture, by Dorothy Holland and Margaret Eisenhart. University of Chicago Press, 1990. 252 pages.

Abstract: Book review: Strategic Analysis: Using Comparative Data to Understand You Institution, by Barbara Taylor, Joel Meyerson, Louis Morrell and Dabney Park, Jr. Association of Governing Boards, 1991. 217 pages.

Abstract: Book review: How Adminstrators Can Improve Teaching, by Peter Seldin and Associates. Jossey-Bass, 1990. 219 pages.

Abstract: Book review: The Learning Industry: Education fro Adult Workers, by Nell Eurich. Princeton University Press, 1990. 298 pages.

Abstract: Book Review: Managing the facilities Portfolio: A Practical Approach to Institutional Facility Renewal and Deferred Maintenance, by Sean Rush. NACUBO, 1991. 100 pages.

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: The end of a love affair; The new mood about higher education. Pull quotes: "America's leading universities can no longer be trusted." "An urgent task is the rebuilding of academic morale." "Administrators have often allowed their budgets to race in wild directions."