Association for Institutional Research
Enhancing Knowledge, Expanding Networks.
Editor:
John Smart
University of Memphis
Senior Associate Editor:
William G. Tierney
University of Southern California
Started in 1985, the Higher Education Handbook publishes one annual volume (H. Springer Science & Business Media) and is jointly sponsored by AIR and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The Handbook is organized around 12 to 15 higher education topic areas, each with its own associate editor. These topic areas reflect the richness and diversity of the field in terms of subject matter, interests, and methodological perspectives. The Associate Editors provide general leadership and direction for each topic area and they work with the contributing author(s) for each chapter. While the desired pattern is to have one chapter per research area in each volume, most volumes have a few areas not represented. With some of the annual volumes running to 500 pages, each chapter is a major work.
As described in the first edition, the Higher Education Handbook was established on the belief that the further maturation of higher education as an area of scholarly inquiry is contingent upon the ability to bring order and understanding to the increasingly rich, diverse, and fragmented research findings. The Higher Education Handbook thus provides an annual compendium of exhaustive and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics. Each annual volume seeks to strike a balance between comprehensiveness and depth of coverage. Contributing authors are selected for their recognized expertise in the specific specialty areas. The charge to each author is threefold: to provide an integrative review of extant research on the selected topic, to critique that research in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and to set forth an agenda for future research.
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William G. Tierney, University of Southern California (senior associate editor)
Philip G. Altbach, Boston College (comparative and international) Ben Baez, Florida International University (social context) Alan E. Bayer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (faculty) Corinna A. Ethington, The University of Memphis (research methodology) Micheal K. McLendon, Vanderbilt University (governance and planning) Raymond R. Perry, University of Manitoba (curriculum and instruction) Scott L. Thomas, The University of Georgia, (students) Brian Pusser, University of Virginia (systems and organization) Edward St. John, The University of Michigan (finance and economics)