Twenty-five years of Scholarship: A Sociology of The Review of Higher Education Contributors, 1977-2002

Given today's hurried pace of change in higher education and its institutions, it is imperative for the higher education research community to reflect on its current composition and resulting ability to understand and respond to the breadth and rapidity of that change. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to identify selected social and academic characteristics of the primary contributors (authors, editorial board members, and editors) to The Review of Higher Education, to categorize institutional affiliations of contributors via the Carnegie Classification System and to synthesize the data in a historical and sociological perspective. The contributions to The Review's articles, editorial board positions, and editorships in its first 25 years have predominantly been from male members of the higher education professoriate affiliated with and receiving doctoral degrees from major research universities ranked highest in the Carnegie Classification System. Trends toward greater gender and disciplinary representation, especially among author contributors, began to appear by the mid-point (1990s) of the study period.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Moss, Ron W.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lumsden, D. Barry
• Newsom, Ronald W.
• Waller, Lee

• Education, Higher -- United States -- Authorship.
• Review of higher education.
• contributors
• higher education
• editorial board
• historical perspective
• sociological perspective

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Moss, Ron W.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

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