Offers a comprehensive conceptualization of the 'working college student' available. This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the characteristics, experiences, and challenges of working college students. It provides a complete understanding of the heterogeneity underlying the label 'undergraduates who work'.

Laura W. Perna is an associate professor of higher education the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current scholarship focuses on understanding the ways that public and institutional policies enable and restrict college access and success especially for students from underrepresented minority groups and from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Glenn DuBois

Foreword-Glenn DuBois Introduction-Laura W. Perna SECTION I. WORK AS A FORM OF FINANCIAL AID 1. Undergraduate Work and the Student Aid System-Sandy Baum SECTION II. WORK AS A COMPONENT OF STUDENT IDENTITY 2. Adult Workers as Undergraduate Students. Significant Challenges for Higher Education Policy and Practice-Carol Kasworm 3. Overcoming Adversity. Community College Students and Work-John S. Levin, Virginia Montero Hernandez & Christine Cerven 4. Mobile Working Students. A Delicate Balance of College, Family, and Work-Mary Ziskin, Vasti Torres, Don Hossler, & Jacob P.K. Gross 5. Academic Success for Working Adult Students-Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Amy K. Swan, Nancy L. Deutsch, & Bruce Gansneder SECTION III. WORK AS A VEHICLE FOR PROMOTING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING 6. Using Economics to Illuminate the Dynamic Higher Education Landscape-Doug Lynch, Michael Gottfried, Wendy Green & Chris Allen Thomas