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Antonio, Anthony Lising – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
Over the past 30 years, research on how college impacts student development has continually pointed to the peer group as perhaps the dominant change agent during the college years. A college student's peers act as a reference group, or an environmental source of sociocultural norms in the midst of which a student grows and develops (Clark & Trow,…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Student Development, Academic Aspiration, Friendship