This volume examines the contextual and methodological issues pertaining to studying diverse institutions, and provides effective and useful approaches for higher education administrators, institutional researchers and planners, policymakers, and faculty seeking to better understand students in postsecondary education. It also offers guidelines to asking the right research questions, employing the appropriate research design and methods and analyzing the data with respect to the unique context of colleges and universities.

Author Biography

M. CHRISTOPHER BROWN II is executive director and chief research scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. JASON E. LANE is a research associate in the Office of Graduate Studies, Research and Faculty Development in the College of Education a the Pennsylvania State University.