Introduction to American higher education

I. FACULTY

The American faculty in perspective / Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein

Small worlds, different worlds : the uniquenesses and troubles of American academic professions / Burton R. Clark

The extent and nature of scholarly activities among community college faculty / Barbara K. Townsend and Vicki J. Rosser

Faculty of color in academe : what 20 years of literature tell us / Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, and J. Luke Wood

The changing context for faculty work and workplaces / Judith M. Gappa, Ann E. Austin, and Andrea G. Trice

II. CURRICULUM, TEACHING AND LEARNING

External influences on curriculum : sociocultural context / Lisa R. Lattuca and Joan S. Stark

The rise of the "practical arts" / Steven Brint

The canon debate, knowledge construction, and multicultural education / James A. Banks

The learning college : creating a new architecture for community colleges / Terry O'Banion

Teaching-for-learning (TFL) : a model for faculty to advance student learning / Clifton F. Conrad, Jason Johnson, and Divya Malik Gupta

III. STUDENTS

What educators and administrators need to know about college student engagement / George D. Kuh

Looking in the rearview mirror : factors affecting transfer for urban community college students / Linda Serra Hagedorn, Scott Cypers, and Jaime Lester

Theoretical considerations in the study of minority student retention in higher education / Laura I. Rendón, Romero E. Jalomo, and Amaury Nora

Diversity and higher education : theory and impact on educational outcomes / Patricia Gurin, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin

Nine themes in campus racial climates and implications for institutional transformation / Shaun R. Harper and Sylvia Hurtado

IV. ORGANIZATIONS, LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE

Problems of governance, management, and leadership in academic institutions / Robert Birnbaum

Loosely coupled systems : a reconceptualization / J. Douglas Orton and Karl E. Weick

Organizational culture in higher education : defining the essentials / William G. Tierney

The effect of institutional culture on change strategies in higher education : universal principles or culturally responsive concepts? / Adrianna J. Kezar and Peter D. Eckel

Community college organizational climate for minorities and women / Barbara K. Townsend

V. POLICY

Autonomy and accountability : who controls academe? / Frank A. Schmidtlein and Robert O. Berdahl

Lobbying in higher education : theory and practice / Michael D. Parsons

State funding limitations and community college open door policy : conflicting priorities? / Ruth Zimmer Hendrick, William H. Hightower, and Dennis E. Gregory

Federal involvement in higher education desegregation : an unfinished agenda / Clifton F. Conrad and David J. Weerts

Affirmative action and the creation of more favorable contexts of choice / Michele S. Moses

Epilogue on the future of American higher education / Paul D. Umbach, Lisa R. Lattuca, Samuel D. Museus, Matthew Hartley, and Tatiana Melguizo.