Rethinking Campus Life

Christine A. Ogren is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa, USA.Marc A. VanOverbeke is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Rethinking Campus Life.- 2. Trends in the Historiography of American College Student Life: Populations, Organizations, and Behaviors.- 3. “We Are Not So Easily To Be Overcome”: Fraternities on the American College Campus.- 4. “Mattie Matix” and Prodigal Princes: A Brief History of Drag on College Campuses From the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s.- 5. “Enthusiasm and Mutual Confidence”: Campus Life at State Normal Schools, 1870s-1900s.- 6. Instruction in Living Beautifully: Social Education and Heterosocializing in White College Sororities.- 7. The Mexican American Movement.- 8. Student Activists and Organized Labor.- 9. New Voices, New Perspectives: Studying the History of Student Life at Community Colleges.- 10. Activism, Athletics, and Student Life at State Colleges in the 1950s and 1960s.- 11. Campus Life for Southern Black Students in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- 12. Higher (Power) Education: Student Life in Evangelical Institutions.- 13. Conclusion: New Perspectives on Campus Life and Setting the Agenda for Future Research.

“The book title, Rethinking Campus Life, is both specific and referential. The essays offer a literal rethinking of traditionally told tales of college student life … the volume is both a rethinking of an older frame from the past and an introduction to new work in the future. It is a comprehensive and forward-thinking volume.” (Kate Rousmaniere, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 59 (2), May, 2019)