STUDYING COLLEGE-STUDENTS IN THE 21ST-CENTURY - MEETING NEW CHALLENGES

The confluence of several demographic, institutional, economic, and te chnological changes may not only alter fundamentally the way we think about what it means to go to college but also change the methodologies we now use to assess the impact of college. in this article, we outli ne and discuss the implications of four such forces: the changing unde rgraduate student population, the increasing importance of community c olleges, shrinking financial support for higher education, and the ris e of information technology.