Psychological Characteristics of 1980’s College Students

Cathy the commuter student and Professor Smith have both had long days. Cathy, frazzled after the dash from work and the fight for a parking space, slips into a dreary classroom trying to quell the inevitable hunger pangs produced by her lifestyle. Hoping for an early class break, she recalls that her yogurt is still sitting on her desk at work, the campus has no evening food service, and no lounge exists in her building. She steels herself for the three-hour lecture and attempts to figure out how she can get to the library before the next class to rush through the assigned readings left on reserve. As soon as his class ends Professor Smith, also tired from a long day of fighting for parking spaces, hunting for a comfortable corner to enjoy his brown bag with a colleague, and attending a tedious faculty meeting heads for the babysitter to pick up his youngest on the way home.One hopes that the above scenario is not representative of the collegiate experience for the commuter student or faculty members in the 1980s. Yet changing national patterns of college attendance over the past two decades indicate that an overwhelming majority of college students commute to their classes rather than live on campuses. S . S . Stcwar: (Ed.) Commuln SlndmlJ-Enhononi l%nr Edvrolronoi Expnitncr New Dircrtions lor Student Services, no. 21 San Francism: Josscy-Bass, December 1983. 9

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American College Student Activism in the Mid-1980s

Beeler

1985

NASPA Journal

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Psychological Characteristics of 1980’s College Students

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