Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research [electronic resource] / edited by John C. Smart.

A Serendipitous Search for a Career in Higher Education -- Professors as Knowledge Workers in the New, Global Economy -- Contrasting Perspectives on Higher Education Governance in the Arab States -- Are Students Really Rational? The Development of Rational Thought and its Application to Student Choice -- Investments in Human Capital: Sources of Variation in the Return to College Quality -- The Causes and Consequences of Public College Tuition Inflation -- Perceived (Academic) Control and Scholastic Attainment in Higher Education -- Cluster Analysis in Higher Education Research -- Ideas of a Uuniversity, Faculty Governance, and Governmentality -- College Environments and Climates: Assessments and Their Theoretical Assumptions -- For-Profit Degree-Granting Colleges: Who are These Guys and What do They Mean for Students, Traditional Institutions, and Public Policy?.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.