REDISCOVERING ROOTS - PUBLIC-POLICY AND HIGHER-EDUCATION RESEARCH

Authors
TERENZINI PT
Citation
Pt. Terenzini, REDISCOVERING ROOTS - PUBLIC-POLICY AND HIGHER-EDUCATION RESEARCH, Review of higher education, 20(1), 1996, pp. 5
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research
Journal title
Review of higher education → ACNP
ISSN journal
01625748
Volume
20
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0162-5748(1996)20:1<5:RR-PAH>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Despite a decade of critiques that research on higher education is lar gely unrelated to urgent policy issues,little seems to have changed. T his article (from the 1995 ASHE Presidential Address) argues that high er education researchers have lost sight of their field's origins as a n applied field of study. Five suggestions are offered for narrowing t he gulf between research, policy, and practice.