Suggests that fostering student learning and personal development are central tasks of higher education and the student affairs administration. Discusses how, with the guidance of human development theories, professionals can promote student growth by understanding how individuals change and learn.

Volume Introduction I. Personal Growth and the College Student 2 The Seven Vectors; Ego Development II. Cognitive and Ethical; Cognitive and Ethical Growth: The Making of Meaning; Women's Ways of Knowing: On Gaining a Voice; Students' Epistemologies and Academic Experiences: Implications for Pedagogy; The Reflective Judgment Model: Transforming Assumptions About Knowing; Moral Stages and the Development of Faith III. Identity In Context; A Minority Identity Development Model; Toward a Model of White Racial Identity Development; Homosexual Identity Formation: Testing a Theoretical Model; IV. Person In Context; Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education; Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation; The Ecology of Cognitive Development: Research Models and Fugitive Findings