Purpose: The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of the dynamic character of career and its key attributes, and the embeddedness of their definitions and meanings in national social, political and economic contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Features of three recent distinct social, political and economic situations in Russia are used…

This case study chronicles Syracuse University's athletic department's attempt to achieve consistency in its identity program by changing its identity during 2004, and then again in 2005. The changes were owing to high-level personnel changes on both the academic and athletic sides of the university. This case details the many issues arising from…

As a senior honors student at Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, California, last spring, Lakea Youngblood gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, California's two most sought-after public universities. While both schools offered the northern California native similar financial…

Many graduate creative writing programs depend on "star" faculty who have been hired more because of their professional reputation as writers than because of their commitment to teaching. As a result, such programs often fail to provide reflection on teaching that would truly serve their students. One step toward alleviating this problem is to…

The notion of an impact factor was first posited by Eugene Garfield (1972) to study the use, prestige, and status of scientific journals. The Institute for Scientific Information created the impact factor as a means to measure the number of times an "average article" published in a journal was cited over a particular time period ("The impact…

To assess the reputations of 81 doctoral training programs in special education, the department heads and junior and senior faculty members of the programs were asked to identify the five programs with the most distinguished faculties and the five programs that graduate the best prepared students. (Author/DB)

This article ranks graduate schools' success in preparing economists by counting the number, length, and quality of research articles published by their graduates between 1975 and 1984. (JDH)

Many factors, such as extreme economic pressures, greed, cut-throat competition, narrowing of lawyer's education, lawyer hucksterism, and floods of new lawyers, have caused the dreary metamorphosis of the American legal profession to a business. The objective of today's large law firm is essentially to make money. Changes are needed. (RM)

However innovative Cezanne's pictorial structure may appear to those with a preconceived notion of what a representation of reality ought to be, his art is not a simple continuation of previous movements, nor is it a revolutionary reversal that leads directly to cubism and abstract art. (Author/SJL)

Analysis of 361 campus recruitment interviews found that recruiter behavior did not affect applicant attraction to firms directly but influenced perceptions of job and organizational characteristics. Organizational reputation had a negative effect on attraction, possibly because applicant expectations were not confirmed by the interview. (SK)

Attempts to identify what makes a recommendation letter effective (and what does not). Presents several guidelines for different conditions and circumstances under which recommendations are frequently written. Concludes by suggesting not to write a letter if the writer cannot put him/herself in the place of the candidate, because the writer's…

Describes how more regional public institutions are opening honors colleges to raise their profiles and attract better students. (EV)

The authors compared the longevity of all baseball players alive at the time of their induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame with age-matched controls who were likewise alive at the time of the Hall of Famer's induction, and also matched them for career length, player position, and body-mass index, to assess if fame in sports is associated with…

By happenstance rather than design, what began as a single study intended to refute the validity of student ratings of instruction turned into a 30-year quest into the nature of college teaching. Although I found that student ratings can be affected by seemingly extraneous variables such as instructor reputation, I quickly realized that the…

This essay sketches out the reasons for Clement Greenberg's influence and the relationship between his reception as a critic and the emergence of art criticism as a "discipline," a phenomenon that corresponds, as Amy Newman observes, with the early history of "Artforum". But it is much more than mere "correspondence." This essay also suggests,…