Contemporary issues in higher education / edited by Marybeth Gasman and Andrés Castro Samayoa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The demography of pathways to higher education for critical populations / Maurice Shirley and Stella M. Flores -- Geography of college choice / Nicholas Hillman and William Casey Boland -- Challenges and opportunities in the use of big and geocoded data in higher education research and policy / Manuel González Canché -- Sexual violence on college campus / Susan Marine -- The new credentialing landscape / Jason L. Taylor -- Vigorous civility : aspirations for free expression on campus / Frederick M. Lawrence -- Refuting contemporaneity : trans* experiences in, out, and beyond higher education / Children of the House of "Pay it No Mind" (a collective of trans* scholars in higher education and student affairs) -- Understanding Islamophobia on college campuses / Shafiqa Ahmadi, Darnell Cole, and Monica Prado -- Students experiencing homelessness on college campuses / Jarrett Gupton and Jennifer Trost -- Currently and formerly incarcerated students / Debbie Mukamal and Rebecca Silbert -- Undocutrends in higher education / Susana M. Muñoz and Yuri Hernández Osorio -- Understanding single mothers in college : strategies for greater support / Cynthia Hess, Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Barbara Gault, and Mary Ann Demario.

The latest text in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series, this volume speaks to the complex dimensions that higher education scholars and educators need to understand about the shifting role of postsecondary education in the United States.