Understanding the Working College Student

New Research and Its Implications for Policy and Practice
Herausgeber: Perna, Laura W

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a comprehensive conceptualization of the 'working college student' available. This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the characteristics, experiences, and challenges of working college students. It provides a complete understanding of the heterogeneity underlying the label 'undergraduates who work'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781579224271
• ISBN-10: 157922427X
• Artikelnr.: 29293767

Autorenporträt

Laura W. Perna is an associate professor of higher education the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current scholarship focuses on understanding the ways that public and institutional policies enable and restrict college access and success especially for students from underrepresented minority groups and from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Glenn DuBois

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword-Glenn DuBois Introduction-Laura W. Perna SECTION I. WORK AS A FORM
OF FINANCIAL AID 1. Undergraduate Work and the Student Aid System-Sandy
Baum SECTION II. WORK AS A COMPONENT OF STUDENT IDENTITY 2. Adult Workers
as Undergraduate Students. Significant Challenges for Higher Education
Policy and Practice-Carol Kasworm 3. Overcoming Adversity. Community
College Students and Work-John S. Levin, Virginia Montero Hernandez &
Christine Cerven 4. Mobile Working Students. A Delicate Balance of College,
Family, and Work-Mary Ziskin, Vasti Torres, Don Hossler, & Jacob P.K. Gross
5. Academic Success for Working Adult Students-Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Amy
K. Swan, Nancy L. Deutsch, & Bruce Gansneder SECTION III. WORK AS A VEHICLE
FOR PROMOTING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING 6. Using Economics to
Illuminate the Dynamic Higher Education Landscape-Doug Lynch, Michael
Gottfried, Wendy Green & Chris Allen Thomas