Month: October 2012

Editors: Richard D. Howard, Gerald W. McLaughlin, William E. Knight & Associates Publisher: Jossey-Bass, an Imprint of Wiley – Higher Education – 727 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar My guess is that most readers probably do not know what institutional research is. This is a relatively recently field of work and study, probably no more than half a century old. What is it? Joe Saupe defined it in 1990: “Institutional research is research conducted within an institution of higher education to provide information which supports planning, policy formation and decision making.” Institutional research provides information and services to...

Authors: Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini Publisher: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Higher Education Imprint – 827 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book by Professors Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini is the third edition of a book that was first published in 1991 with the same title: How College Affects Students. It was a synthesis of some 2,600 research studies on the impact of college education and experience on students. The pioneers in the field of research on college students are Kenneth Feldman and Theodore Newcomb, who wrote and published their landmark book The Impact of College...

Author: Dominick Mazzagetti Publisher: Farleigh Dickinson University Press – 253  pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book is a historical account of the participation of the 15th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers in the Civil War, based on 101 letters written for Hunterdon County newspapers in a period of 18 months from September 1862 to April 1864 by two men among those who dedicated themselves to the cause of the Union: Lucien A. Voorhees and William M. Thompson. The author Dominick Mazzagetti, who is currently president of RomAsia Bank in Monmouth County, New Jersey, has a background in...

Authors: Edward D. Hess and Jeanne Liedtka Publisher: Stanford University Press – 130 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In this book, Edward D. Hess and Jeanne Liedtka, professors of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, provide you new research-based laws they’ve discovered and developed that lead to business growth. They reject the commonly-accepted belief that growth is driven primarily by strategy. They assert that most companies large and small are by nature anti-growth because they are designed to be predictable in results, standardized in structure, and have goals and other elements akin to...