What Matters in College: Four Critical Years

(Student environment andIndividual involvement). Al­though this book runs the risk ofsubjecting the reader to informa­tion overload, Astin'slatest studyreports what Pascarella andTerenzini (1991) concluded intheir review ofapproximately3,000 studies - college hasstrong effects on students.Students develop a greater senseofinterpersonal and intellectualcompetence