Understanding the working college student : new research and its implications for policy and practice /

Understanding the working college student : new research and its implications for policy and practice / edited by Laura W. Perna ; foreword by Glenn DuBois. - 1st ed. - Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2010. - xxvi, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Student work and the financial aid system / Sandy Baum -- Adult workers as undergraduate students: significant challenges for higher education policy and practice / Carol Kasworm -- Overcoming adversity: community college students and work / John S. Levin, Virginia Montero-Hernandez, and Christine Cerven -- Mobile working students: a delicate balance of college, family, and work / Mary Ziskin, Vasti Torres, Don Hossler, and Jacob P. K. Gross -- Academic success for working adult students / Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Amy K. Swan, Nancy L. Deutsch, and Bruce Gansneder -- Using economics to illuminate the dynamic higher education landscape / Doug Lynch, Michael Gottfried, Wendy Green, and Chris Allen Thomas -- Of a mind to labor: conceptualizing student work and higher education / Brian Pusser -- Job Fare: workplace experiences that help students learn / Jonathan S. Lewis -- Working during college: its relationship to student engagement and education outcomes / Alexander C. McCormick, John V. Moore III, and George D. Kuh -- Effects of work on African American college student's engagement / Lamont A. Flowers -- Impact of working on undergraduate student's interactions with faculty / Paul D. Umbach, Ryan D. Padgett, and Ernest T. Pascarella -- Understanding the relationship between working while in college and future salaries / Marvin A. Titus.

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