Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student

This book presents a portrait of todays undergraduate college students, and is the third in a series on college student expectations, aspirations, academics, attitudes, values, beliefs, social life and politics. Based on all new research, this volume will give researchers, practitioners, and policymakers a current understanding of the forces shaping college access, the college experience and college success for todays undergraduates across the nation. It is a follow up to When hope and fear collide: Portrait of todays college student (Levine, 1998), and When dreams and heroes died: Portrait of todays college student (Levine & Cureton, 1980). These created portraits of the undergraduate college students of the 1980s and the 1990s, finding vast and important generational differences shaped by social change, national, and global events. This book covers the main topic areas of the two previous works, presenting updated information and making comparisons across generations. It will also contain new chapters on student wellness and why some students do not attend college.