Brief: Speaker to address effects of college

Ernest Pascarella, professor of higher education at UIC, will speak on "How
College Affects Students: Myths, Rational Myths, and Other Things That May
Not Be True." The speech, scheduled for 9 a.m. April 3 at the Levis Faculty
Center, is sponsored by the Campus Academic Advising Commission. It is the
keynote address of the Sixth Annual Academic Advisors workshop, sponsored
by the office of the vice chancellor for academic affairs.

The presentation will identify some myths about the impact of college on
students that are not supported by the research evidence. He will discuss
topics such as student change during college, institutional prestige and
educational impact, the impact of two- and four-year colleges, the impact
of historically black versus predominantly white colleges, effective
methods of instruction, good teachers and good researchers, improving
teaching, the impact of faculty outside the classroom, and the separateness
of  students' academic and non-academic experience of college.

For the past 18 years Pascarella has focused his research and writing on
student persistence in higher education and the impact of college on
students. He has written more than 100 journal articles on these topics and
is co-author of the 1991 book, "How College Affects Students," which
received the 1991 Research Achievement Award from the Association for the
Study of Higher Education.