Higher Education Bibliography Yearbook 1988. 2nd Edition.

Overview & Synopsis

This annual bibliography includes works of the greatest interest and value to the generalist and practitioner in higher education. Selections are provided in 34 topic areas and over 100 subtopic areas. The annotations describe content with an emphasis on observations, findings, and recommendations. The subject areas fall into five categories: (1) the academic enterprise (teaching and learning, curriculum, faculty, libraries, and graduate education and research); (2) students (student characteristics and development, recruitment/admissions/retention, and student affairs and services); (3) institutions (institutional mission, quality, and accreditation, governance and the presidency, institutional and academic management, institutional advancement, institutional financing and budgeting, business and personnel administration, institutional planning and research, academic and institutional computing and communications, and campus building and planning management); (4) state and national (general policy and issues, national systems--comparisons and economic development, statewide planning and coordination, finance and resource allocation, assessment/evaluation/outcomes analysis, educational opportunity/special group issues, student financial assistance and work/education/industry); (5) discipline approaches (history, philosophy, law, economics, and sociology/anthropology/demography); and (6) sectors (independent higher education, community colleges; private career schools, and adult and continuing education). An index of authors is included. (SM)