Contents
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Economic Models and Policy Analysis in Higher
Education: A Diagrammatic Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Michael B. Paulsen and Robert K. Toutkoushian
Rankings and Classifi cations in Higher Education:
A European Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Marijk van der Wende
Institutional Transformation and the Advancement
of Women Faculty: The Case of Academic Science
and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Mary Frank Fox
The State, the Market and the Institutional Estate:
Revisiting Contemporary Authority Relations
in Higher Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Brian Pusser
Interests, Information, and Incentives in Higher
Education: Principal-Agent Theory and Its Potential
Applications to the Study of Higher Education Governance. . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Jason E. Lane and Jussi A. Kivisto
Toward a Theory of Faculty Professional Choices
in Teaching That Foster College Student Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
John M. Braxton
Financial Aid and Student Dropout in Higher
Education: A Heterogeneous Research Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Rong Chen
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Theorizing Research Policy: A Framework
for Higher Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Amy Scott Metcalfe
Studying the Effectiveness of Programs
and Initiatives in Higher Education Using
the Regression-Discontinuity Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Sally A. Lesik
From Creation to Cultural Resistance
and Expansion: Research on American Indian
Higher Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Roger Geertz González
Using Holland’s Theory to Study Patterns
of College Student Success: The Impact of Major
Fields on Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Kenneth A. Feldman, John C. Smart, and Corinna A. Ethington
Name Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Contents of Previous Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

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