When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student
"This is a must-read for everyone who wants to match current student needs with an appropriate college experience....Levine and Cureton present a comprehensive snapshot of students in the 90s. The data are interesting and the analysis is powerful." --Choice"Continuing education professionals would do well to pay attention to the book's depiction of what is happening in colleges and universities today, not only because some of authors' research includes nontraditional undergraduate students, but also because the experiences of today's undergraduates will color expectations throughout their lives, including their continuing education." --Continuing Higher Education Review"This 1998 book 'seeks to paint a portrait of the current generation of college students.' Succinct, well-researched, well-documented, and well-written, Levine and Cureton's book accomplishes that stated goal admirably.... This book, through juxtaposition of responses from a previous generation with those of today, substantially contributes to the student affairs profession by providing a translation of students' life experiences into values, attitudes, and behaviors. Student affairs professionals who read this book will understand students better, leading to services, programming, and relationships enriched by that understanding--enabling professionals to stand ready at the intersection when hope and fear collide." --Journal of College Student Development"A lucid, subtle, knowing look at America's young people at the And of the 20th century: their aspirations, hopes, worries?a book that will help shape the way teachers across the nation do their work." --Robert Coles, professor of psychology and medical humanities, Harvard University"The clock becomes your enemy when reading this book. The revelations propel you along causing you to read faster and faster to the next line, paragraph, page, and chapter. Must reading for anyone concerned about higher education and the future. This will be the most often quoted research and literature on student demographics for all higher education during the next decade!" --GwAndolyn Jordan Dungy, executive director, NASPA"This is a MUST READ book for all college and university adminstrators, faculty members and student affairs professionals. Anchored in wide ranging research, it captures the complexities of today's undergraduates, putting them in historical perspective, like no other available work?all accessible through Art Levine's lively, penetrating style." --Dr. Arthur Chickering, visiting distinguished professor, Vermont College, Norwich Univeristy"The manner in which our institutions of higher education care for students during this period of dramatic social change will dictate not only the extent of their academic success, but ultimately the competitiveness and strength of this country as well. Such care requires elegant understanding, and there is no better place to learn how that understanding can be provided than to read Levine's and Cureton's powerful new book When Hope and Fear Collide." --Barry Munitz, chancellor, the California State University System"In the future, each time someone pontificates about the state of college students today, you will appreciate again this book's sound research and illuminating conclusions. You will also have uncovered a provocative lens through which to understand anew our recent cultural history. Levine and Cureton have done us a valuable service" --Dr. Donald M. Stewart, president, the College Board, New York, New York"Student affairs administrators should encourage major campus decision-makers (presidents, trustees, academic affairs administrators, and other academic administrators) to read this book. This is a book that calls for fundamental change." --Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs