Higher Education
Programs at Penn State
College of
Education, Higher Education
Higher Education includes interdisciplinary research, analysis
and management of the critical problems and challenges faced by researchers
and practitioners in the field of post-secondary education.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/hied/
Professional Associations
American Association
of Community Colleges
An association for two-year institutions granting associate
degrees. Includes job listings and information about initiatives, events,
and services.
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/
American Council on Education (ACE)
http://www.acenet.edu/
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions
Officers
Focuses on the identification and promotion of standards
and best practices in enrollment management, information technology, instructional
management, and student services.
http://www.aacrao.org/
American
Association of University Professors
AAUP defends academic freedom and tenure, advocates collegial
governance, and develops policies ensuring due process. Site includes
information about publications and programs, membership, and current events.
http://www.aaup.org/
American
Educational Research Association
AERA promotes educational research. Site includes extensive
information about AERA’s organization, journals, listservs, annual meeting,
and job postings.
htttp://www.aera.net
Association of American Colleges and Universities
AACU forges links between presidents, academic administrators,
and faculty leaders to plan and implement effective educational programs.
Site includes information about membership, meetings, publications, initiatives,
and priorities.
http://www.aacu-edu.org/
Higher Education Associations List
An extensive list prepared by the Association for Institutional
Research.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/assoc/
The
Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
Focuses on the promotion, advancement, and application of effective
planning in higher education. SCUP's international membership of more
than 4,200 individuals represent each type of post-secondary institution.
http://www.scup.org/
Selected Reference Sources
American Education Annual: Trends and Issues in the Educational Community
Covers significant issues, research, and events in all areas of American
education for the academic year, by synthesizing pertinent information
from journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources.
Carnegie
Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2000)
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, first
developed in 1970, groups of American colleges and universities according
to their missions. The 1994 classification report is available in print
Encyclopedia of Educational Research
Provides overviews of specific areas of educational research; is a
good starting point for research.
Faculty Priorities Reconsidered : Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship
Handbook of Research on Educational Administration
Prepared under the auspices of the
American Educational Research Association. This second edition surveys
important research in the field.
LB2805.H2864 1999 Educ
& Behav Sci Lib 5th floor Paterno.
Higher Education in American Life, 1636-1986: a Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses
The International Encyclopedia of Education
Provides an overview of international scholarship on educational
problems, theories, practices and institutions. Includes educational
policy and planning, and philosophy of education.
Reshaping the University : New Relationships Between Research, Scholarship and Teaching
Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education : The Revolution in Research on Leadership
Selected Sources for Higher Education Data and Analysis
(AAUP)
An annotated list of print and web sources and associations prepared
by the American Association of University Professors.
http://www.aaup.org/research/Hestats.htm
U.S. Department of Education
Site provides the latest educational research findings,
statistics, legislation, regulations, policy guidance, Department of Education
publications, and links to other education sites, including State Education
Agencies.
http://www.ed.gov/index.html
Indexes and Abstracts
America:
History and Life
America: History and Life includes about 400,000 annotated or abstracted
references to American and Canadian history. Published since 1964, the
database includes over 2,000 journals worldwide, including state and local
historical journals as well as historical articles from hundreds of major
humanities and social science journals. It also includes thousands of
book and media reviews, citations to published books, and dissertations.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#AMERICAHIST
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral
dissertations (and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American
and European universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation
pilot project. Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations
since 1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.
Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DISS
Education
Abstracts Full Text (Wilson)
Education Abstracts Full Text (Wilson) covers over 625 periodicals, with
indexing from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERLEDUCABS
Educational Administration Abstracts
Annually provides 1000 abstracts for items in more than 200 journals, books,
government reports and conference papers, covering important areas from early
childhood education, K-12, community colleges, and higher education.
ERIC
-- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center),
is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with
more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional
and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such
as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERIC
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify
findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies
studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design;
and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC
Evidence Standards. Study
reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability];
intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a
particular intervention]; topic
reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
Ethnic
News
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously
growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, Ethnic NewsWatch
is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200
publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both
languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage
of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using
free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added
each month.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ETHNICNEWS
GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full text database comprised of periodicals and other publications
that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
GenderWatch supports programs in gender and women's studies, public policy,
political science, sociology and contemporary culture, education, literature
and the arts, health sciences, history, business, and more. Publications include
academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional
publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, government
publications, and NGO and special reports. GenderWatch contains archival material,
in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material
continually added.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#GENDERWATCH
The
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online
equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized
around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research
and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets,
modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines,
Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable
full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned
for release from 2004.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCBEHVSCI
Medianet
(Penn State's Audiovisual Database)
Lists the films and videotapes which are available in the University's Media
& Technology Support Services collection. Use this database to identify
information about specific items in the collection and determine their availability.
For faculty or rental scheduling of audiovisual materials in the collection:
At University Park, call 863-3202 or 865-6314 or fax 863-2574 to schedule
a film or video. At a Penn State College Campus, contact the instructional
services specialist for more information. Non-local rental customers should
call (800) 826-0132. Current collection. Updates: Continuous. Coverage: Films
and Videos from the University's collection.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MEDIANET
Policy
File (Public Policy Research & Analysis)
PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research
programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors
include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations,
Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of
American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute,
Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National
Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where
available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are
made available within individual abstracts.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#POLICY
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and
librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text
journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating
as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets,
a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly
monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
ProQuest
Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals: A full text database subset of PsycINFO, including
400 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically
from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage does not presently
include APA journals; additions to coverage occur frequently.)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/entry/psycinfo.html
Psychology
Databases
Primary resource for psychology and related aspects of disciplines including
education, organizational management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, etc. Many titles are available in full text.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCINFO
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is
a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present, from
1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides full text,
searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published
by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and links to non-APA
full text journals owned in electronic format by the University Libraries.
Related subject areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology,
psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human factors engineering,
sociology, business, law and more. Published by the American Psychological
Association.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCHOVID
Social
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It covers 1400 social science journals.
The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular
publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or
publication. The index can also be used to find related articles (articles
that have at least one reference in common).
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SSCINDEX
Sociological
Abstracts
Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social
Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage:
1963-present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCABS
Selected Journals
Academe Today
Online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Selected sections
are free; others require a subscription.
American Journal of Education
Seeks to bridge and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and
substantive diversity of educational scholarship, and to encourage a vigorous
dialogue between educational scholars and practitioner
Diverse Online
A newsmagazine dedicated exclusively to minority issues in higher
education; includes book reviews and job announcements. Available through
JSTOR on LIAS Fast Track.
http://www.blackissues.com/
The
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy (CJEAP)
A peer reviewed electronic journal that raises important questions and promotes
debates on problems of educational practice and policy. Includes case studies,
policy analyses, reflections on dilemmas of practice, reports or reviews of
research, and extended editorials.
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
Covers all issues in higher education.
College
Quarterly A Journal of Professional Development for College Educators
A Canadian academic journal devoted to the improvement of college
education and the professional development of college educators.
http://www.senecac.on.ca/quarterly/index.html
Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Quarterly, scholarly electronic journal of the American Education
Research Association focusing on issues of education policy.
EDUCAUSE Quarterly
A practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of
information resources.
Electronic
Journals in the Field of Education
(AERA SIG Communications Among Researchers): Links to electronic journals
that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost.
http://aera-cr.ed.asu.edu/links.html
Higher
Education and National Affairs
The American Council on Education includes vital information about
public policies affecting colleges and universities, the federal budget and
student aid, Capitol Hill and the courts, the Department of Education, and
regulations and research.
http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=HENA
History of Higher Education Annual
A US scholarly journal devoted to the history of higher education.
Focuses on original research and scholarship, review essays and historiographical
essays, and abstracts of recent doctoral dissertations.Published at Penn State
University since 1993.
Journal
of Blacks in Higher Education
Provides new information about governance, policies, practices,
and broader intellectual issues, policies and strategies that affect the progress
of blacks in institutions of higher education.
The Journal of Computing
in Higher Education
Publishes peer-reviewed essays, reviews, reports, and research articles about
instructional technology and educational management information systems.
Journal
of Higher Education
A scholarly journal for higher education.
Journal
of Public Service and Outreach
A peer-reviewed journal for research articles, essays, commentary,
reviews, and information on public service written by a wide variety of scholars
and professionals; national and international scope.
Journal on Excellence
in College Teaching
A scholarly peer-reviewed journal by and for faculty at universities
and colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest
in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among
faculty about their classroom experiences. Selected issues full text. Published
by Miami University of Ohio.
Phi
Delta Kappan
The professional journal for education. Site features selected
articles from the print journal, and the Kappan Job Site.
Review of Higher
Education
Journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Provides
a forum for discussion of issues affecting higher education and related fields.
Available for PSU users through Project Muse on the LIAS Fast Track, or
Workplace
A journal for academic labor.
http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/wp42.html
Resources for Higher Education
American
Council on Education Center for Policy Analysis
http://www.acenet.edu/programs/policy/
Association for Institutional Research
List of member research centers and institutes, with links to their
web site. Extensive links to affirmative action/equity, disability, student
affairs, financial aid, administrative data, electronic publications, and
government / higher education sites.
http://airweb2.org/links/centers.cfm
Includes "Internet Resources for Institutional Research".
http://www.airweb.org/links/
Association of American Universities
Policy issues, documents and fact sheets from the AAU, which help
members develop national policy positions on academic research and graduate/professional
education issues.
http://www/AAU.edu
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation is an independent national and international
policy and research center dedicated to strengthening schools and colleges
in America and beyond. It seeks to generate discussion and promulgate sustainable,
long-term changes in educational research, policy and practice.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
[University of Twente, Netherlands]
A research institute that seeks to make a significant contribution
to the understanding of policy-making, governance and management in higher
education.
http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/
Center for the Study of Teaching
and Policy
A consortium of five universities, created to investigate the relation
between excellent teaching and policymaking at national, state, and local
levels. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education
http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/
Coalition for Networked Information
CNI is dedicated to advancing networked information technology
for use in scholarly communication and for the enrichment of intellectual
productivity.
http://www.cni.org/
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
The CIC is the academic consortium of twelve major teaching and
research universities (the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago).
CIC programs extend to all aspects of university activity except intercollegiate
athletics.
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/
Consortium for Higher Education Benchmarking Association™(CHEBA™)
A forum for the exchange of performance measurements and benchmarking
data for all levels of higher education around the world
http://www.cheba.com/
Council on Higher Education Accreditation
A non-profit organization of colleges and universities serving
as the national advocate for voluntary self-regulation through accreditation.
Includes CHEA’s Good Practices database, The CHEA Chronicle, and information
about upcoming CHEA events.
http://www.chea.org/
Educause
Focuses on the management and policy infrastructure in the use
of computational, network, and information resources in support of higher
education’s missions of scholarship, instruction, service, and administration.
Formed through merger of Educom and CAUSE. Includes policies, projects, publications,
and initiatives.
http://www.educause.edu/
Grapevine
Grapevine reports on total state effort for higher education, including
tax appropriations for universities, colleges, community colleges, and state
higher education agencies.
http://coe.ilstu.edu/grapevine/
Higher Education Research Institute
(HERI)
An interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information,
policy studies, and research training in post-secondary education, based in
the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html
Institute for Higher Education Policy
A non-profit, non-partisan organization that fosters quality in
post-secondary education
http://www.ihep.com/
Institute
of Education Sciences
Formed in November 2002 by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002; consists
of the National Center for Education Research, the National Center for Education
Statistics, and the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional
Assistance. This office reflects the intent of the Bush Administration and
Congress to advance the field of education research, making it more rigorous
in support of evidence-based education. IES replaces the former Office of
Educational Research and Improvement [OERI]
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html
Kellogg
Commission
Created in 1996 by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges (NASULGC) to help define the future direction of public universities
and to recommend an action agenda to speed the process of change.
http://www.nasulgc.org/Kellogg/kellogg.htm
National Association
of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges(NASULGC)
A voluntary association of public universities, land-grant institutions and
many of the nation's public university systems dedicated to supporting excellence
in teaching, research and public service.
http://www.nasulgc.org/
National Center for Higher Education Management
Systems (NCHEMS)
Assists colleges and universities as they improve their management
capability. Bridges the gap between research and practice by placing the latest
managerial concepts and tools in the hands of working administrators on college
and university campuses.
http://www.nchems.org/
The National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Provides "action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies
affecting education beyond high school.
http://www.highereducation.org/
National Education Association's Higher Education
Page
Topics include the future of higher education, tenure, unions,
and news. Also includes links and information about NEA publications.
http://www.nea.org/he/
Office
of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)
Ceased in November 2002 by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. Replaced
by the Institute of Education Sciences.
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html
Strategic Plans of Selected Colleges and Universities
Links to the strategic plans of selected universities and colleges
from UC Santa Cruz
- http://planning.ucsc.edu/irps/stratpln/collplan.htm
from Higher-Ed.org
-http://www.higher-ed.org/strategic_plans.htm
US Department
of Education. Office of PostSecondary Education
Links for students and institutions for higher education.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/index.html
What Works Clearinghouse
Established by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education
Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, and the public with a central,
independent, and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
It is administered by the Department through a contract to a joint venture
of the American Institutes for Research and the Campbell Collaboration.
http://www.w-w-c.org/