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I was among the people John Smart consulted in the early 1980s about his ideas for what became Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. I thought it was a great idea then, as I do now, to provide a source where scholars, administrators, and policy analysts can find a definitive review of the literature on a wide array of important topics in higher education. Because I strongly believe that higher education scholars and administrators should have some sense of their intellectual and professional heritage, I also thought it was a great idea when John started inviting some of our senior scholars to reflect on the origins and evolution of their careers.
One might hope that this narrative of my professional career is more or less factually accurate. Memoir writers can, however, be prone to a failing memory or its twin, writing revisionist history to their own advantage. So, kind reader, caveat emptor.
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An earlier version of this section appeared in Terenzini and Pascarella (2008).
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Terenzini, P.T. (2012). I Have Always Been a Student: A Tale of Two Careers. In: Smart, J., Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2950-6_1
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