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Portraits of Students: A Retrospective

By: K. Patricia Cross

A tour of the past 30 years of student trends highlights the challenge of change.

From Volume 29 Number 1 | Fall 2000

Abstract: In this article, the author reviews 60 articles about students that were published between 1969 and 1999. She identifies five distinctive galleries of student portraits as they were revealed in the writings of authors over the 30-year period. Galleries visited and analyzed for their impact on higher education are Student Protest, Open Admissions, Diversity, Lifelong Learning, and Student as Consumer.

Institutions Mentioned: Grinnell College, University of California-Berkeley, The City University of New York

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