ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the outcomes of college for its students considered as whole human beings. To study the genuine outcomes of higher education in all their variability, then, it is necessary to observe the changes in individual students as whole persons rather than to look at average changes on particular personality dimensions. Another approach to judging the impact of higher education on its students as whole persons is to explore the attitudes of its clients—students, alumni, and the general public—about its performance and its effects. The appraisals of students and alumni will be influenced not only by the lasting effects of college but also by the direct satisfactions and benefits afforded by college life. Joe L. Spaeth and Andrew M. Greeley reported findings on the attitudes toward college of a large sample of alumni of the dass of 1961. The opinions of alumni as reported in the survey were almost identical with those of a comparable Roper survey of students.
