How College Affects Students

Not since Feldman and Newcomb's 1969 landmark book, The Impact of College on Students, has there been a more comprehensive resource available on what is known about the effects of college on students. In this book, Pascarella and Terenzini take up where Feldman and Newcomb left off, synthesizing 20 more years of empirical research and over 2,400 studies, distilling what is known about how students grow and changes as a consequence of attending college. In nontechnical language, the authors examine such major college outcomes as learning, cognitive growth, values and attitudes, self-identity, and career choice - and reveal the implications of these outcomes for future public policy and institutional practice.