Books written by John M. Braxton

Rethinking College Student Retention

Clark,B.R. (1972). The OrganizationalSaga in Higher Education. AdministrativeScience Quarterly,17(2), 178–184. Clark, B., Heist, P., McConnell, T., Trow, M., & Yonge, G. (1972). ... Doyle, W. R.,& Gorbunov, A. V. (2011).
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

This expanded edition offers, in addition to the original text, a critical introduction that explores the impact of Boyer's views, a call to action for applying Boyer's message to the changing nature of faculty work, and a discussion guide ...
Professors Behaving Badly: Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education

Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education John M. Braxton, Eve M. Proper, Alan E. Bayer. Goode, W. (1969). The theoretical limits of professionalization. In A. Etzioni (Ed.), The semi-professions and their organization (pp. 266–313).
Professors Behaving Badly: Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education

Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education John M. Braxton, Eve M. Proper, Alan E. Bayer ... Male and female academics also differ in their perceptions of the characteristics of good teaching (Goodwin & Stevens, 1993).
Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 30, Number 3

With Alan E. Bayer, Braxton wrote Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching (Johns Hopkins University Press), and with William Luckey and Patricia Helland, he wrote Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship Through Boyer's Four ...
Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle

More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year.
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

This expanded edition offers, in addition to the original text, a critical introduction that explores the impact of Boyer's views, a call to action for applying Boyer's message to the changing nature of faculty work, and a discussion guide ...
Analyzing Faculty Work and Rewards: Using Boyer's Four Domains of Scholarship: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 129

All those involved in evaluating faculty work and the concomitant faculty rewards system will find this a useful volume Known for their thoughtful scholarship on this topic the chapter authors...
Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship Into Colleges and Universities Through Boyer's Four Domains

In his influential book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest Boyer (1990) proposed that the definition of scholarship be broadened beyond the predominant emphasis on the scholarship of discovery...
The Challenge of Independent Colleges: Moving Research Into Practice

Enlisting the right mix of faculty is also an important and difficult challenge to address for CIC members since there is generally a wide range of technical skill sets. Interestingly, over 80 percent of CIC members report that ...
Toward a Scholarship of Practice: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 178

Improved administrative practice in higher education, both at a campus level and for higher education as a social institution. This is the 178th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education.
Toward a Scholarship of Practice: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 178

Making the Case for Assessment as Scholarship of Practice NSSE as a Case of Evidence-Based Practice Using NSSE Results Student Engagement and Practice-Oriented Research Final Thoughts on NSSE and the Scholarship of Practice References ...
Perspectives on Scholarly Misconduct in the Sciences

"Perspectives on Scholarly Misconduct in the Sciences is a valuable resource for scholars, university and college administrators, public policy makers, and officers of professional and academic societies interested in the...
Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching

The authors' work is based on survey results obtained from faculty members at research universities, liberal arts colleges, and two-year community, junior, and technical colleges.
The Challenge of Independent Colleges: Moving Research into Practice

This book began as a collaboration among top higher education researchers, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) scholars, and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC).
Community College Faculty Scholarship: New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 171

New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 171 John M. Braxton. disciplinary organizations, or even simple recognition or appreciation of ... (2010). Past successes and future directions. National two-year college physics meeting.
Ernest L. Boyer: Hope for Today's Universities

... liberal education” (p. 30). Similarly, Levine (2006) points out that, “[t]he lopsided effects of privileging electives and early specialization seemed to threaten the human and civic values ... Education and the Quest for Purpose / 39.
Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 30, Number 3

Student departure is a long-standing problem to colleges and universities. Approximately 45 percent of students enrolled in two-year colleges depart during their first year, and approximately one out of four...
Improving College Student Retention: New Developments in Theory, Research, and Practice

If higher education institutions, researchers, and policy makers are to improve retention rates, a critical examination of the current state and future directions of retention research is essential.This edited volume begins that examination ...
Community College Faculty Scholarship: New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 171

... English in the Two-Year College, 40, 302–307. Bauerlein, M., Gad-el-Hak, M., Grody, W., McKelvey, B., & Trimble, S. W. (2010, June 13). We must stop the ... COMMUNITY COLLEGES • DOI: 10.1002/cc SCHOLARSHIP AND THE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY 47.