1. Student Typologies in Higher Education
Shouping Hu, Lindsey Katherine, George D. Kuh

This chapter reviews various student typologies developed over time and the stability and change in American college students’ characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors the typologies reflect.

2. Students’ Involvement in Group Experiences and Connections to Leadership Development
John P. Dugan

This chapter introduces a taxonomy refl ecting patterns of involvement in student clubs and organizations during college and its relationship to leadership development. Insights for better understanding college student engagement, along with applications associated with institutional research, are explored.

3. A Typology of Students’ Use of the Community College
Peter Riley Bahr

This chapter describes a typology of fi rst-time community college students based on students’ course-taking and enrollment behavior. The utility of the typology is demonstrated through an application that involves interpreting data concerning students’ participation in remedial mathematics.

4. A Developmental Typology of Faculty-Student Interaction Outside the Classroom
Bradley E. Cox

This chapter presents a typology of faculty-student interaction outside the classroom. As both a descriptive framework and a developmental model, the typology can be used independently or to augment traditional survey research. The chapter concludes with fi ve lessons learned about faculty-student interaction outside the classroom.

5. The Use of Cluster Analysis in Typological Research on Community College Students
Peter Riley Bahr, Rob Bielby, Emily House

This chapter provides an introduction to the family of partitional cluster analytical methods, with specifi c attention to research on community college students. Key decision points and common approaches in the use of cluster analysis are described.

6. Typological Research on College Students for Better Outcomes
Shouping Hu, Shaoqing Li

In this chapter, we discuss the issues in conducting typological research and suggest the directions for future typological research on college students that could aid efforts to enrich student experiences and improve student outcomes.

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