Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volume 34

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Assessing the Impact of College on Students: A Four-Decade Quest to Get It Approximately Right (Ernest T. Pascarella); (2) Critical Examination of the Role of STEM in Propagating and Maintaining Race and Gender Disparities (Deborah Faye Carter, Juanita E. Razo Dueñas, and Rocío Mendoza); (3) A Review of Empirical Studies on Dual Enrollment: Assessing Educational Outcomes (Brian P. An and Jason L. Taylor); (4) Visual Research Methods for the Study of Higher Education Organizations (Amy Scott Metcalfe and Gerardo Luu Blanco); (5) From Access to Equity: Community Colleges and the Social Justice Imperative (Lorenzo DuBois Baber, Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Tamara N. Stevenson, and Jeff Porter); (6) The Promise and Peril of the Public Intellectual (Todd C. Ream, Christopher J. Devers, Jerry Pattengale, and Erin Drummy); (7) Places of Belonging: Person- and Place-Focused Interventions to Support Belonging in College (Lisel Alice Murdock-Perriera, Kathryn L. Boucher, Evelyn R. Carter, and Mary C. Murphy); (8) Assessing a Moving Target: Research on For-Profit Higher Education in the United States (Kevin Kinser and Sarah T. Zipf); (9) The Labor Market Value of Higher Education: Now and in the Future (Clive R. Belfield and Thomas R. Bailey); (10) The Dual Commodification of College-Going: Individual and Institutional Influences on Access and Choice (Rodney P. Hughes, Ezekiel W. Kimball and Andrew Koricich); (11) The History of Philanthropy in Higher Education: A Distinctively Discontinuous Literature (Andrea Walton); and (12) Geographical, Statistical, and Qualitative Network Analysis: A Multifaceted Method-Bridging Tool to Reveal and Model Meaningful Structures in Education Research (Manuel S. González Canché). [For the previous volume "Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volume 33," see ED591561.]