Understanding the working college student : new research and its implications for policy and practice / edited by Laura W. Perna ; foreword by Glenn DuBois.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Glenn DuBois -- Introduction / Laura W. Perna -- Section one: work as a form of financial aid -- Student work and the financial aid system / Sandy Baum -- Section two: work as a component of student identity -- 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 Hosler, and Jacob P.K. Gross -- Academic success for working adult students / Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Amy K. Swan, Nancy L. Deutsch, and Bruce Gansneder -- Section three: work as a vehicle for promoting cognitive development and learning -- Using economics to illuminate the dynamic higher education landscape / Doug Lynch, Michael Gottfried, Wendy Green, and Chris Allen Thomas -- Of a mind to labor: reconceptualizing student work and higher education / Brian Pusser -- Job fare: workplace experiences that help students learn / Jonathan S. Lewis -- Section four: work as a vehicle for improving student engagement -- 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 students' engagement / Lamont A. Flowers -- Impact of working on undergraduate students' interactions with faculty / Paul D. Umbach, Ryan D. Padgett, and Ernest T. Pascarella -- Section five: work as a vehicle for improving educational and economic attainment -- Understanding the relationship between working while in college and future salaries / Marvin A. Titus -- Conclusions and recommendations for policy, practice, and future research / Laura W. Perna -- About the authors and editors -- Index.

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This book offers the most complete and comprehensive conceptualization of the "working college student" available. It provides a multifaceted picture of the characteristics, experiences, and challenges of working college students and a more complete understanding of the heterogeneity underlying the label "undergraduates who work" and the implications of working for undergraduate students' educational experiences and outcomes. It raises important questions for public policymakers, college administrators, faculty, academic advisors, student services and financial aid staff, and institutional and.

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