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Alexander Astin

Professor Emeritus
Higher Education and Organizational Change

3047 Moore Hall

(310) 825 8331

aastin@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Maryland, 1958

Research Interests

Higher education policy in the United States; educational reform; values in education; impact of different types of institutions on student development; assessment and evaluation research in higher education.

Recent Publications

What matters in college? Four critical years revisited. Jossey-Bass, 1993.

An Empirical Typology of College Students. Journal of College Student Development, January 1993.

The Future of Higher Education: Competition or Cooperation? Learning, Spring 1993.

Diversity and Multiculturalism: How Are StudentsAffected? Change, April 1993.

College Retention Rates Are Often Misleading. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1993.
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