While a common goal of higher education is to improve student learning to prepare young adults for the professional, civic and personal challenges of their lives, few institutions have a model to facilitate these outcomes.

Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Miami University of Ohio and a nationally recognized author and speaker on student development and learning. She received the American College Personnel Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Research Achievement Award in 2007, for her outstanding contribution to advancing student learning. Her scholarship addresses the evolution of learning and development in college and subsequent adult life, and educational practice to promote self-authorship. Her seventh and eighth books respectively are Authoring Your Life and Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship. Patricia M. King is Professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan.

Preface; Part One. A Theoretical Framework to Educate for Self-Authorship. 1. Self-Authorship as the Common Goal of 21st Century Education--Marcia B. Baxter Magolda; 2. Learning Partnerships Model. A Framework for Promoting Self-Authorship--Marcia B. Baxter Magolda; Part Two. Models of Educational Practice to Promote Self-Authorship. 3. Promoting Self-Authorship Through an Interdisciplinary Writing Curriculum--Carolyn Haynes; 4. Creating a Context to Promote Diversity Education and Self-Authorship among Community College Students--Anne M. Hornak and Anna M. Ortiz; 5. An Urban Leadership Internship Program. Implementing Learning Partnerships 'Unplugged' from Campus Structures--Katie Egart and Melissa P. Healy; 6. A Learning Partnership. U. S. College Students and the Poor in El Salvador--Kevin Yonkers Talz; 7. Community Standards Model. Developing Learning Partnerships in Campus Housing--Terry D. Piper and Jennifer A. Buckley; 8. A Community of Scholars. Enacting the Learning Partnerships Model in Graduate Education--Judy L. Rogers, Peter M. Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, and Kathleen Knight Abowitz; Part Three. Implications of Implementing the Learning Partnerships Model. 9. The Learning Partnerships Model. Framing Faculty and Institutional Development--Terry M. Wildman; 10. Organizing for Learning in a Division of Student Affairs--Rebecca Mills and Karen L. Strong; Part Four. Designing Learning Partnerships. Creating Learning Partnerships in Higher Education. Modeling the Shape, Shaping the Model--Patricia M. King and Marcia B. Baxter Magolda.