Stepping Up to Stepping Out: Helping Students Prepare for Life After College New Directions for Student Services, Number 138

Undergraduate students come to college from a myriad of pathwaysfor a variety of purposes, and the same can be said of them as theyleave to head off into their next endeavors. Arguably, the mostimportant goal of higher education is to prepare students toachieve their postcollege aspirations, and campuses typicallypursue that goal through a combination of curricular andco-curricular programs and services for students. This issue offers readers a glimpse into contemporary contextand practice related to helping students with their after-collegetransition from one form of education (two-year or four-year) tothe next (four-year, graduate, or professional school), fromeducation to workforce, or from education to military service. This is the 138th volume of this Jossey-Bass highereducation quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vicepresidents of student affairs, deans of students, studentcounselors, and other student services professionals, NewDirections for Student Services offers guidelines andprograms for aiding students in their total development: emotional,social, physical, and intellectual.