This chapter provides pragmatic suggestions for designing assessment projects focused on commuter students.

This chapter explores how commuting to campus influences students psychological well-being during college.

This chapter provides information and resources for higher education professionals to better serve and support students who commute or live off campus and who may also have a disability.

This chapter outlines the unique time management issues and stress factors faced by the typical commuter student, as well as some of the various coping strategies.

This chapter explores first-to-second-year persistence behavior among first-time commuter students enrolled in 4-year universities and colleges.

This chapter provides information and recommendations for working with commuter students of color, along with several examples from practice.

This chapter reviews existing research on commuter students and nonacademic commitments.

This chapter explores components necessary for creating an institutionally based action plan that supports commuter student success.

This chapter reviews student services and community-building initiatives aimed at serving commuter students online.

Theory helps us understand commuter students and develop environments, policies, and practices that enhance their educational experience.

Commuter students make up an overwhelming majority of the college student population. At the same time, the amount of research on commuter students is minuscule compared to that of residential students. The characteristics of the commuter student subgroup that is referenced in this chapter can be described as living independent of guardians or…

Examines the dynamics of a constantly changing student population and demonstrates how the definition of "new" changes from year to year and from one area of the country to another. Identifies emerging demographic trends and suggests strategies to anticipate and respond to the needs of each new wave of community college students. (RJM)