HED 601: HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES

HED 601: HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Fall 2003

Professor Sheila Slaughter
Monday 4:00-6:30PM, Rm. 308
Office hours: 1:30-4:00 Monday; 1:30-5:00 Tuesday
slaughtr@u.arizona.edu

Course focus/objectives

HED 601 is an introduction to U.S. higher education. It aims to provide students with:
(1) a basic understanding of postsecondary education in the U.S., in its characteristics as a system and set of social relations and markets, and in its social effects;
(2) a survey of some essential concepts and theories regarding U.S. higher education;
(3) skills in analytical reading and interpretation of social science literature about U.S. postsecondary education.

Such an approach should give students a fuller understanding of their position in the system, and of the various forces that shape their lives as students and professionals. In exposing students to basic concepts and theories, the course provides a sense of various perspectives used in analyzing, explaining, and predicting developments in higher education. Such perspectives should broaden students’ understanding, raise new questions, and inform their professional practice.

In developing basic analytical and interpretive skills in reading social science as well as general communications in the workplace, the course provides a set of questions and tools. Such skills will refine students’ ability to address, learn from, and challenge text, whether these are scholarly articles, memos, mission statements, or other types of text they confront as professionals.

Course work/requirements

Students are responsible for the following:
(a) doing the readings before the class;
(b) participating in class discussions (a key skill as a professional is knowing how to enter a conversation and pose questions and/or make points clearly);
(c) not missing more than one class;
(d) completing three 10 page paper utilizing the analytical framework provided in class to review an academic article;

Grading policy

Students will be graded on (d), with each assignment accounting for 1/3 of the final grade.


Course readings

Copies of all articles and chapters are on line in electronic reserves. Books can be ordered from Amazon.com. The books are:

Laura Fairchild Brodie. 2000. Breaking out: VMI and the coming of women. New York: Pantheon

David F. Noble. 2002. Digital Diploma Mills. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Bill Readings. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Donald E Stokes. 1997. Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. Washington DC: Brookings Institution

August 25, 2003 Introduction

Plan of the class

September 1, 2003. No class, Labor Day

September 8, 2003: Stratification of Access: Institutional and Social

Martin A. Trow. “The Analysis of Status,” In Burton R. dark (Ed.), Perspectives on Higher Education: Eight Disciplinary and Comparative Views. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

James Hearn. “Academic and Non-academic Influences on the College Destination of 1980 High School Graduates. “Sociology of Education 64(1991): 158-71

Florence A. Hamrick and Frances K. Stage. “High Minority Enrollment, High School Lunch Schools: Predisposition to College. “The Review of Higher Education 21,4(1998):343-58.

Sylvia Hurtado, Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Charlotte Briggs, and Byung-Shik Rhee. “Differences in College Access and Choice Among Racial/Ethnic Groups: Identifying Continuing Barriers. “Research in Higher Education 38,1(1997): 43-76.

September 15, 2003: Stratification of Access and Attainment: Social

Kimberly Goyette and Yu Xie. Educational Expectations of Asian-American Youths: Determinants and Ethnic Differences. Sociology of Education 72,1(1999): 22-36.
Jerry A. Jacobs. Gender and Academic Specialties: Trends among Recipients of College Degrees in the 1980s. Sociology of Education 68,2(1995); 81-98.

Herbert R. Barringer, David T. Takeuchi, and Peter Xenos. Education, Occupational prestige, Asian-Americans. Sociology of Education 62,1(1990): 27-43.

Samuel Bowels & Herberet Gintis (2002). Schooling in capitalist America revisited. Sociology of Education 75, (1) 1-18.

September 22, 2003: Stratification in Attainment: Institutional-The Case of Community Colleges

Kevin Dougherty. Community Colleges and Baccalaureate Attainment. The Journal of Higher Education 63,2(1992): 188-214.

W. Norton Grubb. 2002. Learning and earning in the middle, part I: National studies of pre-baccalaureate education. Economics of Education Review. 21 (4): 299-321.

Valerie E. Lee and Kenneth A. Frank. Students’ Characteristics that Facilitate the Transfer from Two-Year to Four-year Colleges. Sociology of Education 63,3(1990): 178-94

Yangjing Lin and Paul Vogt. Occupational Outcomes for Students Earning Two-Year College Degrees: Income, Status, and Equity. The Journal of Higher Education 67,4(1996): 446-75

September 29, 2003: How Students’ Stratification Happens: Socialization and Cultural Conflict

FIRST 10 PAGE PAPER DUE

Laura Fairchild Brodie. 2000. Breaking out: VMI and the coming of women. New York: Pantheon Books.

John U. Ogbu. Beyond Language: Ebonics, Proper English, and Identity in a Black-American Speech Community. American Educational Research Journal 36,2(1999): 147-84.

Howard London. The Culture of a Community College. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1978. Chapters 1 & 3.

Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart. Educated in Romance: Women Achievement, and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Chapters 1-4.
October 6, 2003: Stratification: Personnel, by Institutional Type, Discipline and Ascription

F. King Alexander. The Silent Fiscal Crisis: The Relative Fiscal Capacity of Public Universities to Compete for Faculty. The Review of Higher Education 24,2(2001): 113-29.

Marcia Bellas. Disciplinary Differences in Faculty Salaries: Does Gender Bias Play a Role?” Journal of Higher Education 68,3(1997): 299-321.

Patricia J. Williams. 1991. The alchemy of race and rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Dulce M. Cruz. Struggling with the Labels that mark my Ethnic Identity. In Raymond Padilla and Rudolfo Chavez (Eds) The Learning Ivory Tower: Latino Professors in American Universities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

October 13, 2003: The changing structure and purpose of universities

Gibbons, M. et. Al. 1994. The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. Thousand Oakes, CA. Sage.

Stokes, Donald E. 1997. Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. Washington DC: Brookings Institution

October 20, 2003: The changing structure and purpose of universities

Bill Readings. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

October 27, 2003: Restructuring Higher Education Institutions: The Macro Patterns

Martin Trow. “Reflections on the Transition from Mass to Universal Higher Education.” Daedalus (1970): 1-42.

Carlos Torres and Daniel Schugurensky. 2002. The political economy of higher education in the era of neoliberal globalization: Latin America in comparative perspective. Higher Education. 43,4: 429-456.

Frank Stillwell. 2003. Higher Education, Commercial Criteria and Economic Incentives. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management. 25,1: 51-52.

Magrath, Peter C. 2000. Globalization and its effects on higher education beyond the nation-state. Higher Education in Europe 25,3: 251-260.
Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie. 1997. Academic capitalism: Politics, policies and the entrepreneurial university. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. Chapter 1.

November 3, 2003: Restructuring Higher Education Institutions: The Structured Choices at the Organizational Level

Robert Birnbaum. The Life Cycle of Academic Management Fads. The Journal of Higher Education 71.1(2000): 1-16.

Matthew S. Kraatz and Edward J. Zajac. Exploring the Limits of the New Institutionalism: The Causes and Consequences of Illegitimate Organizational Change. American Sociological Review 61,5(1996): 812-36.

Burton R. Clark. Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation. New York: Pergamon Press, 1998. Introduction and Chapter 1.

Gary Rhoades. Who's Doing it Right? Strategic Activity in Public Research Universities. The Review of Higher Education 24,1(2000): 41-66.

SECOND 10 PAGE PAPER DUE

Gary Rhoades. Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998, Chapter 7.

Martin J. Finkelstrin, Robert K. Seal, and Jack H. Schuster. The New Academic Generation: A Profession in Transformation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University press, 1998. Chapter 7.

David Noble. 2001. Digital Diploma Mills. New York: Monthly Review Press.

November 17, 2003: Structuring Public Policy: Policy as Political Governance and Policy as Political Economy

Carolyn P. Griswold and Ginger Minton Marine. Political Influences on State Policy: Higher Tuition, Higher Aid, and the Real World. The Review of Higher Education 19,4(1996): 361-90.

Susan B. Hannah. “The Higher Education Act of 1992: Skills, Constraints, and the Politics of Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education 67,5(1996) 498-527.

Sheila Slaughter. The Higher learning and High Technology: Dynamics of Higher Education Policy Formation. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990, Chapters 1-2

Kathy Reeves Bracco, Richard C. Richardson, Jr., Patrick M. Callan, and Joni E. Finney. Policy Environments and System Design: Understanding State Structures. The Review of Higher Education 23,1(1999): 23-44.

David E. Lavin. Changing the Odds: Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the disadvantaged. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Chapters 1 & 8.

November 24, 2003: The Politics of Individual Choice and Collective Action: Successfully Resisting, Challenging, and Changing “The System”

Sheila Slaughter. 1997. Class, race, gender and the construction of post-secondary curricula in the United States: Social movement, professionalization and political economic theories of curricular change. Journal of Curriculum Studies 29,1: 1-30.

Rob Rhoads. Student Protest and Multicultural Reform: Making Sense of Campus Unrest in the 1900s. The Journal of Higher Education 69,6(1998): 621-46.

Gary Rhoades and Rob Rhoads. The Public Discourse of U.S. Graduate Student Unions: Social Movement Identities, Ideologies, and Strategies. Under Submission at The Review of Higher Education.

Doug MacAdam. 1988. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2. The biographical roots of activism. Chapter 3. Freedom High. The summer of ’64.


December 5, 2003: Academic capitalism and the new economy

Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades. Academic capitalism and the new economy. Forthcoming. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapters 1, 10 and 11.

December 8, 2003: Final class

THIRD 10 PAGE PAPER DUE