This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on studentslearning. The book also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy. This authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the literature on college-impact is required reading for anyone interested in higher education practice, policy, and promise3/4faculty, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and decision-makers at every level.
This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on studentslearning. The book also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy. This authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the literature on college-impact is required reading for anyone interested in higher education practice, policy, and promise3/4faculty, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and decision-makers at every level.
Ernest T. Pascarella is the Mary Louise Petersen Professor ofHigher
Education at the University of Iowa. He has receivednumerous awards
for his research from national professional andscholarly
associations. In 2003 he received the Howard R. BowenDistinguished
Career Award from the Association for the Study ofHigher
Education.
Patrick T. Terenzini is distinguished professor and seniorscientist
in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at ThePennsylvania
State University. He has received research awards fromthe
Association for the Study of Higher Education, the Associationfor
Institutional Research, the American Society for
EngineeringEducation, the American College Personnel Association,
and theNational Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
"How College Affects Students is the essentialreference for anyone
trying to answer the question 'Whatworks?' In this new volume, the
authors synthesize the mostrecent body of research that refines
this question for the diverserange of students and
institutions."--Jacqueline E.King, director, Center for Policy
Analysis, American Council onEducation
"Pascarella and Terenzini have produced anotherencyclopedic
masterpiece--thorough, penetrating, insightful,and rich with
implications. It is the essential resource foranyone with a serious
interest in college studentdevelopment."--George D. Kuh,
chancellor's professor anddirector, Center for Postsecondary
Research, Indiana University
"In extending their landmark synthesis, Pascarella andTerenzini
have reassuringly confirmed their original conclusionsabout college
impact. But they also reveal how much broader andricher this
literature has become through the addition of topicsthat range from
diversity, through community colleges, to newtheories of human
development. Their work remainsdefinitive."--Peter Ewell, senior
associate, NationalCenter for Higher Education Management Systems
(NCHEMS)
"Essential reading for both scholars and campusleaders."--John C.
Smart, professor of higher education,University of Memphis and
editor, Research in HigherEducation
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