Theoretical Perspectives on College Students (2nd Edition)

This volume highlights the latest in college student research in an effort to inspire both future researchers and future administrators. For the researchers, we hope this material will generate new questions and suggest new ways to address old questions. For administrators, we aim to inspire new ways of conceptualizing solutions to campus problems. We seek to empower them to engage in research themselves in addition to working with the research community to address difficult questions.

The major sections of the book follow the experiences of college students in getting to college, within the college environment, as they develop and formulate identity, and as they learn. We conclude with articles that summarize the literature and offer considerations for future research.

Features include:

• Discusses scholarship that represents traditional college student research.
• Includes transformational work that employs new ways of answering old questions.
• Includes including work that focuses on new populations.
• Incorporates challenges to old models and conventional ways of thinking.