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Executive Compensation in Public Higher Education: Does Performance Matter?
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Cheng, Shaoming – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Executive evaluation and compensation are central to organizational accountability and governance. Driven by increasing public demand on justifications and accountability for substantial salary increases for public university presidents, this paper is intended to shed light on the linkage between performance and executive compensation in public…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Compensation (Remuneration), Job Performance, Public Colleges
Making the Mark: Are Grades and Deep Learning Related?
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Campbell, Corbin M.; Cabrera, Alberto F. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Assessing gains in learning has received increased attention as one dimension of institutional accountability both in the USA (Arum and Roksa, Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses, 2011) and abroad (OECD, http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_39263238_40624662_1_1_1_1,00.html, 2013,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, Correlation
A New Context for Understanding Civic Responsibility: Relating Culture to Action at a Research University
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Thornton, Courtney H.; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Research in Higher Education, 2007
Civic responsibility as an ideal of higher education is rarely considered through a cultural and theoretical lens. Swidler's (1986, "American Sociological Review", 51: 273-286) framework linking ideology, culture and action was used in this ethnographic study of a research university (a) to understand dominant institutional beliefs about civic…
Descriptors: Role Models, Research Universities, Ethnography, Ideology