The career of Robert Maynard Hutchins as president of the University of Chicago is discussed in terms of his contributions to the institution, the academic disputes occurring during his tenure, the characteristics of his academic and organizational leadership, and the state of the university at his resignation in 1952. (MSE)

The 27-year history of the "Chronicle of Higher Education" is outlined, offering details of its origins, expansion, editorial policies, evolution of its reputation, staff, news reporting at home and overseas, and the continuing role of its founding editor and owner, Corbin Gwaltney. (MSE)

Rankings of colleges and universities in the popular press have two problems: (1) they are gimmicks to sell publications; and (2) institutions have become pawns, juggling numbers in quest of higher rankings, the ethical equivalent of cheating. Higher education must return to truth, fairness, and honesty to regain its purpose and integrity. (MSE)

Some teacher education programs are opting to discontinue national certification for reasons of cost, duplication of effort, or standards considered too prescriptive or inappropriate. The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education feels that tougher standards and regular review of programs is essential to educational reform and…

Focuses on how college and university reputations are built and may decay. Explores attributes of organizational reputation. Explores differential aspects of history in the formation of enduring and situational perceptions of organizational reputation, as well as differential effects of communication modes for reaching target publics. Identifies…

Survey of state residents concerning the image of a regional university found either a general, positive opinion or none at all. Statistical modeling of results points to the significant components of university image and how they influence parents' decision to send a child to that institution, which in turn leads to better understanding of the…

Explores how many professors who moonlight for unaccredited Kennedy-Western University are proud to do so, but not all. (EV)

Discusses distance learning research and describes a study of 399 students at two universities that investigated the role of perceived technology usefulness, technological familiarity and accessibility, reputation, constraints, learning preferences, and demographic factors on prospective receptivity toward distance learning. Considers implications…

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the performance of top US business school in maintaining reputation among members of the academic and business communities. The authors generate efficiency measures and identify peers against which underperforming schools should benchmark.

This narrative provides an account of one teacher's use of a minimal, real-world text--a Fantale lollie wrapper--in her classroom as a means of motivating Year 7 students to write concisely and imaginatively. It discusses the success of this strategy and the way in which information technology was utilised in the production of facsimile texts.…

Objective: To experimentally test for confirmational response bias among social work journals and to assess the time-liness and quality of the referee review process. Method: A positive and a negative version of two stimulus articles were sent to two randomized groups of 31 social work journals; journals were stratified by prestige; the timeliness…

Sociologists of knowledge find that academic stratification is present among individual scholars, genders, networks, fields, and all kinds of scientific organizations, while communications scholars have been studying global cultural asymmetry for a long time. Yet few researchers have explored the global dimension of academic stratification. In…

Research on the first day of class by Knefelkamp (Rubin, 1985) showed there was a real desire on the part of both students and teachers for connectedness, but neither group realized the other shared that desire. This paper presents a way to address, before the first day of class, the desire of students to learn about a class and instructor, and…

This paper considers the discursive production of violence in the context of educational markets. Drawing on a larger study of sexually violent incidents that occurred in an elite private boys' school in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, the paper examines disciplinary traditions and communicative practices surrounding these events. Insights from Michel…

When North Carolina native Evan Raleigh was in search of the perfect college, he had three things in mind: (1) the strength of the school's academic reputation; (2) the size of the school; and (3) the school's location and proximity to home. He found all three in the form of Wake Forest University. But Raleigh, who received a full academic…