By any number of standards, the :1986-87 academic year was a year of success for Penn: Ourfaculty continued to earn wide national and international acclaim for teaching and research efforts of its members-including eight Guggenheim Fellowships, one MacArthur Fellowship, two Fulbright Scholarships, and three new Penn memberships in the National Academy of Science; " We made an unprecedented leap...

A s those haunting dreams of failing an exam start to fade, older Americans are heading back to school. As many as 50% of enrolled students are now classified as " those returning to education, " according to research at the University of Missouri-Rolla. This trend makes perfect sense to Guruprasad Madhavan, who, following basic engineering training in instrumentation and control systems and gr...

New models of schooling are necessary as educational institutions attempt to transition into the digital age. This article is an ethnography of Apolyton University, an informal online university of gamers created to enhance pleasure from the game experience, teach the game, and improve upon the game’s standard rule set. It identifies the life trajectory of the community from formation to comple...

Today’s women in higher education administration are the beneficiaries of previous generations of courageous and committed women who challenged societal rules and expectations governing women in the academy. This research study revisits the cross-generational conversations initiated by Astin and Leland (1991) by exploring female administrators’ current perceptions regarding their status in high...

The following investigation of post secondary education will proceed via three subdisciplines of modem economic analysis: first, by way of well-known techniques used in the study of public finance (welfare economics); second through models connected with the economic theory of organization; and third through the approach of ʺpublic choiceʺ (the economics of politics). There are important areas ...

Higher Education targets to develop complex theoretical, abstract and analytical reasoning capabilities in the alumni. This objective can be accomplished addressing four major steps: Theoretical foundation, practice, communication and assessment (Petry, 2002). Theoretical background and practical exercise comprise the basic knowledge building process at initial stages. Assessment guides the alu...

The paper develops a model for the screening mechanism for higher education, within an adverse selection framework. Specifically it examines the effect of wage earned by high school graduates on higher education participation. The model pinpoints a positive relation between the “high school” wage and the number of candidates entered in higher education with positive influences on the quality of...

H do conceptions of the knowledge worker and the learning organization fit with research on adult learning? In the last 30 years a great deal has been written on the subject of adult learning – Knowles, Cross, and Brookfield are three of the major theorists in the field. Knowles (1979) uses the term “andragogy” as opposed to pedagogy to argue that adults learn in ways different from children. H...

Though religion played a central role in the founding of U.S. higher education, over the centuries, its influence was diluted by competing secular emphases. In recent decades, religion has seen a resurgence in academic and co-curricular attention on campuses. In addition, a spirituality not based on religion has gained increasing attention. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of t...