2212 - Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success (University of Chicago Press, 2016) by Janice M. McCabe

Session Submission Type: Author Meets Critics Session

Description

So much scholarship on higher education focuses on the classroom, teacher-student relationships, and higher education policies. Mostly ignored, though, is potentially powerful interpersonal relationships among college youths and how these relationships can shape students' academic and social experiences in college. CONNECTING IN COLLEGE offers an important corrective by focusing explicitly on this topic and by carefully and creatively documenting how important these relationships are (often relying on key social psychological insights), how gender, class, and race-based these relationships are, and how foolhardy it is for scholars of higher education, scholars of adolescence/emerging adulthood, college administrators, and other stakeholders to ignore them. This book, however, does not stop at description and analysis, but also offers important recommendations to so that college youths—especially the most marginalized—can become more integrated within university/college culture and can become more academically successful.

Sub Unit

• Author Meets Critics

Session Organizer

• Brian Powell, Indiana University-Bloomington

Author

• Janice McCabe, Dartmouth College

Presider

• Susan A. Dumais, CUNY-Lehman College

Critics

• Daniel F. Chambliss, Hamilton College

• Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Anna S. Mueller, Indiana University

• Natasha Quadlin, Ohio State University