Well-being and higher education : a strategy for change and the realization of education's greater purposes / edited by Donald W. Harward.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Analysis and Meaning : -- 1. Measuring and Improving the Effect of Higher Education on Subjective Well-Being / John Bronsteen -- 2. Eudaimonic Well-being and Education: Probing the Connections / Carol D. Ryff -- 3. Higher Education and Education in Virtue / Barry Schwartz -- 4. Higher Education, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Possibility of Classroom Grace / Henry Giroux -- 5. Against the Culture of Acquiescence: Why Students Need Liberal Learning for their own Well-Being as well as the Well-Being of Society / William M. Sullivan -- 6. Is Well-Being an Individual Matter? / Kazi Joshua -- 7. Understanding the Complexities of Well-Being / Elizabeth Minnich -- 8. The University as the Common Enemy of Opposing Views of Well-Being / Jerzy Axer -- 9. Education for Well-Being / Todd Gitlin -- 10. Why Well-being is Fundamental to Liberal Learning / Alexander Astin -- Part II. Manifestation and Implementation : -- 11. Why Flourishing? / Corey Keyes -- 12. College Makes Me Feel Dangerous: On Well-Being and Nontraditional Students / David Scobey -- 13. What Constitutes Indices of Well-Being Among College Students? / Sara E. Dahill-Brown & Eranda Jayawickreme -- 14. Thriving: Expanding the Goal of Higher Education / Laurie Schreiner -- 15. Well-Being and Student Persistence: Reframing Student Success / Tricia Seifert -- 16. What Does Doing Good Mean? Well-Being and the Civic Purpose of Higher Education / Andrew Seligsohn -- 17. Student Well-Being as a Function of Identity Development / Elsa M. Nunez -- 18. Student Narratives and Well-Being / Thia Wolf & Amalia Rodas -- 19. Well-Being and Agency: Political Education in a Time of Crisis / Brian Murphy -- 20. Spirit, Truth, and The Bright Colors of Books: Institutional Well-Being and Productive Disorder at a Black Women's College / Mona Taylor Phillips -- Part III. Facilitation: Curricular, Pedagogic and Across Boundaries : -- 21. The Well-Being University / Nance Lucas & Paul Rogers -- 22. Curricular Infusion of Well-Being and Science / Heidi G. Elmendorf & Joan B. Riley -- 23. Bringing Together the Humanities and the Science of Well-Being to Advance Human Flourishing / James O. Pawelski -- 24. Honoring the Humanity of Our Students / David Schoem -- 25. Well-Being and Being Safe: Do Guns Change Social Interactions? A Missouri Case Study / Jonathan M. Metzl -- 26. Well-Being and the Community College Mission / Amanda Hyberger -- 27. The Morehouse Mystique and the Collective Well-being Imperative / John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. -- 28. Mobilizing Campus Communities for Well-Being / Theodore Long -- 29. Why Institutional Commitment to Well-Being Bridges the Academic and Student Affairs Divide / Kevin Kruger & Stephanie A. Gordon -- 30. Distilling Career Advice from the Happiness Literature / Robert H. Frank -- Part IV. The Logic of Change: Why, What, and How? : -- 31. Institutional Transformation in the Service of Well-being: A Cross-Cultural Perspective / Eric Lister -- 32. Reinventing Higher Education for the 21st Century / Peter Leyden -- 33. Transforming Learning: The LEAP Challenge and the Well-Being of Students / Carol G. Schneider -- 34. Well-being, Disintegration and the Rebundling of Higher Education / Randy Bass.

"This is a book about well-being and its multiple connections to higher education--and why those connections matter." --Back cover.