The past two decades have seen massive changes in the higher education landscape, including the heightened participation of post-traditional students, high reentry and mobility of students within and across sectors, and the increased visibility of open admissions institutions, such as community colleges and for-profit colleges. Despite these radical shifts, the most commonly used college choice frameworks still focus on the decisions of students who fit a stereotypical profile and are entering traditional institutions of higher learning for the first time. In this article, Constance Iloh argues for the necessity of a new conceptual approach and offers a three-component ecological model of college-going decisions and trajectories that incorporates the pressing conditions and shifting contexts of twenty-first-century postsecondary education. In doing so, Iloh also asserts that the concept of “choice” may be a limited and problematic way of understanding present-day college-going.

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面向二十一世纪语境的大学“选择”新模式

在过去的二十年中，高等教育领域发生了巨大变化，包括传统后学生的参与度增加，部门内和跨部门学生的高入学率和流动性，以及社区大学和社区学院等开放式招生机构的知名度不断提高。营利性大学。尽管发生了这些根本性的变化，但最常用的大学选择框架仍然侧重于符合定型观念并首次进入传统高等教育机构的学生的决策。在本文中，康斯坦斯·伊洛（Constance Iloh）提出了一种新的概念方法的必要性，并提出了由三部分组成的大学决策和发展轨迹的生态模型，其中包含了二十一世纪专上教育的紧迫条件和不断变化的环境。