This volume provides the latest recommendations on how to address the needs of students in transition at the collegiate level. Understanding Students in Transition covers transitions affecting recent high school graduates, community college transfer students, older adults returning to education, and students displaced by natural disasters.

Addressing the needs of students in the midst of change, particularly those who are part of the -millennial generation- (those born between 1982 and 2003), requires a full understanding of today's students and what they bring to their new college...