Multiple Perspectives on Contemporary College Students: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities

This edited collection explores diverse perspectives about today’s college students from a variety of higher education stakeholders – including faculty, researchers, policymakers, administrators, parents, and students themselves. All too often, those concerned with higher education make assumptions based on outdated information; the voices in this volume provide a grounded and real understanding of college students and explore how we might better support them in our colleges and universities. Each section includes a series of essays, with a culminating chapter written by scholars who analyze, contextualize, and ground these perspectives in theory. Multiple Perspectives on College Students brings current data and experience to light in a way that helps readers understand the needs and opportunities for supporting all college students for success.

Needham Yancey Gulley (he/him/his) is an associate professor of Higher Education Student Affairs at Western Carolina University, USA. He has a long history of advocating for social justice within the educational context through his scholarship, teaching, publications, presentations, trainings, and volunteer endeavors. His first book was a co-edited text published in 2017; an edited volume entitled Using the CAS Professional Standards: Diverse Examples of Practice; the first book ever jointly published by NASPA, ACPA, & CAS. In 2019 he was honored as a Diamond Honoree by ACPA College Student Educators International.