Impact of College on Students

Kenneth A. Feldman is professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His work has appeared in a wide array of professional literature including American Educational Research Journal, Sociology of Education, American Sociological Review, Journal of Social Psychology, and many articles in Research in Higher Education. Theodore M Newcomb was, before his death, a professor of sociology and psychology at the University of Michigan. He published widely in areas of personality and attitude change, group membership and attitude formation, communication behavior, interpersonal attraction, and higher education.

• TRANSACTION INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, 1: THE IMPACT OF COLLEGE: PROLOGUE, 2: CHANGE AND STABILITY DURING COLLEGE, 3: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION, 4: THE SEQUENCE OF EXPERIENCES, 5: THE DIVERSE AMERICAN COLLEGE, 6: THE DIVERSITY OF MAJOR FIELDS, 7: IMPACTS OF RESIDENCE GROUPINGS, 8: STUDENT CULTURE AND FACULTY, 9: BACKGROUND, PERSONALITY, AND COLLEGE IMPACTS, 10: PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE AFTER COLLEGE, 11: THE IMPACT OF COLLEGE: EPILOGUE, APPENDIX A: Sample Items From the Activities Index and the College Characteristics Index, APPENDIX B: Sample Items From the College and University Environment Scales, APPENDIX C: Difficulties in Inferring Changes in “Maturity” From Changes in Scores on Personality Tests, APPENDIX D: Illustrative Data for Some Issues Raised in Chapter Three, APPENDIX E: The Use of the College Characteristics Index and the College and University Environment Scales, APPENDIX F: Problems in Adjusting for Student Inputs When Explaining Student Outcomes, APPENDIX G: Problems of Generalizing About Distinctive Characteristics of Students in Different Curricula, APPENDIX H: Interpretive Difficulties Regarding Data on Accentuation of Initial Major-Field Differences, APPENDIX I: Types of Students and Student Cultures, REFERENCES, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX