ABSTRACT
This chapter includes participants’ experiences in multiple arenas: community living, community roles, career decision-making, and relationship decision making. Participants’ stories in each arena are then translated into educational practice to promote self-authorship in particular aspects of the college cocurriculum. The chapter synthesizes these recommendations into a call for an integrated cocurriculum, the goal of which would be to promote students’ self-authorship by being good company on the journey. Membership in diverse communities demanded self-authorship. There are multiple means through which residential life educators can implement the framework for promoting self-authorship. For some participants the journey toward self-authorship meant reprioritizing within the career they had begun. Participants routinely encountered experiences that necessitated self-authorship regardless of whether the framework to promote it existed. Participants’ involvement in community leadership and volunteer roles brought them face to face with the complexity and social construction of knowledge.
