1. Transformations of the American College Ideal: Six Historic Ways of Learning (Lester F. Goodchild).
2. The Diverse Campus: Broadening Our Ideal to Incorporate All Voices (Adrianna J. Kezar).
3. Developing the Whole Student: The Collegiate Ideal (Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel & Marti Ruel).
4. The Student Affairs Establishment and the Institutionalization of the Collegiate Ideal (Anna M. Ortiz).
5. Faculty Culture and College Life: Reshaping Incentives Toward Student Outcomes (Marilyn J. Amey).
6. Challenges Facing Shared Governance Within the College (Christopher C. Morphew).
7. The Collegiate Ideal and the Tools of External Relations: The Uses of High-Profile Intercollegiate Athletics (J. Douglas Toma).
8. Vocational Education and the Collegiate Ideal: The Threat and the Challenge of Limited Resources (Linda Serra Hagedorn).
9. Redefining Campus: Urban Universities and the Idea of Place (Erin McNamara Horvat & Kathleen M. Shaw).
10. The Collegiate Ideal in the Twenty-First Century (Arthur W. Chickering & Jackson Kytle).