Students become new and different people through the course oftheir education. When students earn the right to say, ‘I am acollege graduate, ‘ that new status becomes a part of who theyare.
The authors in this volume–scholars from a range offields–offer methods that staff and faculty can use toexplore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. The research and ideas in thisvolume can assist in designing approaches to encourage studentgrowth, and to help us understand what it means to attend andbecome a graduate of a college or university.
This is the 166th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed topresidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher educationdecision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timelyinformation and authoritative advice about major issues andadministrative problems confronting every institution.
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Issue Editor:
Chad?Hanson serves as the chairman of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Casper College.
Series Editors:
Betsy Barefoot serves as Vice President and Senior Scholar for the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.
Jillian L. Kinzie is Associate Director at IU Center for Postsecondary Research.