Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Conceptualizing Innovation in Higher Education

   • William G. Tierney, Michael Lanford

   Pages 1-40

3. English Learners and Their Transition to Postsecondary Education

   • Anne-Marie Núñez, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Yasuko Kanno, Stella M. Flores

   Pages 41-90

4. Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature and an Agenda for Future Research

   • Ezekiel W. Kimball, Ryan S. Wells, Benjamin J. Ostiguy, Catherine A. Manly, Alexandra A. Lauterbach

   Pages 91-156

5. A Historiography of Academic Freedom for American Faculty, 1865–1941

   • Timothy Reese Cain

   Pages 157-215

6. Community College Workforce Development in the Student Success Era

   • Mark M. D’Amico

   Pages 217-273

7. Organizational Learning in Higher Education Institutions: Theories, Frameworks, and a Potential Research Agenda

   • Jay R. Dee, Liudvika Leišytė

   Pages 275-348

8. The Cost of Producing Higher Education: An Exploration of Theory, Evidence, and Institutional Policy

   • John J. Cheslock, Justin C. Ortagus, Mark R. Umbricht, Josh Wymore

   Pages 349-392

9. Universities as Anchor Institutions: Economic and Social Potential for Urban Development

   • Michael Harris, Karri Holley

   Pages 393-439

10. Examining Production Efficiency in Higher Education: The Utility of Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    • Marvin A. Titus, Kevin Eagan

    Pages 441-512

11. Learning Through Group Work in the College Classroom: Evaluating the Evidence from an Instructional Goal Perspective

    • Marilla D. Svinicki, Diane L. Schallert

    Pages 513-558

12. Understanding Grit in the Context of Higher Education

    • Daniel J. Almeida

    Pages 559-609

13. Back Matter

    Pages 611-663

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Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.

• Higher Education Handbook
• Paulsen Higher Education Handbooik
• Higher Education Handbook Springer
• Higher Education Handbook of Theory
• Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research
• Higher Education Handbook volume 31

• College of Education, The University of Iowa, IOWA CITY, USA

  Michael B. Paulsen

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