Book chapter
1Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student Success
How College Students Succeed, pp.1-5
Routledge
2022
DOI: 10.4324/9781003445159-1
Abstract
Receiving a college education has perhaps never been more important than it is today. The substantial long-term benefits of receiving an undergraduate degree include improved earnings, job satisfaction, mental well-being, physical health, civic engagement, general knowledge, lifelong learning, and even intergenerational benefits for one's children (see Hout, 2012; Mayhew et al., 2016). Although higher education contributes to far more than economic gains, the employment prospects of college graduates have become particularly crucial with the ongoing automation of working-class jobs that used to provide a strong living wage. Post-secondary degree attainment also contributes to broader public or societal benefits, such as the quality of community and civic life, appreciation of diversity and difference, increased tax revenues, and greater workforce productivity (see Institute for Higher Education Policy, 1998; McMahon, 2009).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 1Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student Success
- Creators
- Nicholas A. Bowman
- Contributors
- Nicholas A. Bowman (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How College Students Succeed, pp.1-5
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003445159-1
- Alternative title
- How College Students Succeed
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984436457702771
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