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.

PART 1: THE JOURNEY TOWARD SELF-AUTHORSHIP 1. COMPLEX LIVES 2. PATHWAYS INTO YOUNG ADULTHOOD 3. FOLLOWING EXTERNAL FORMULAS 4. THE CROSSROADS 5. BECOMING THE AUTHOR OF ONE'S LIFE 6. THE INTERNAL FOUNDATION PART 2: PROMOTING SELF-AUTHORSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION 7. CREATING CONTEXTS FOR SELF-AUTHORSHIP IN ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 8. CREATING CONTEXTS FOR SELF-AUTHORSHIP IN CAMPUS WORK SETTINGS 9. CREATING CONTEXTS FOR SELF-AUTHORSHIP IN THE COCURRICULUM, EPILOGUE

WINNER OF AERA'S NARRATIVE & RESEARCH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP 2003 BOOK AWARD. This groundbreaking book extends Marcia Baxter Magolda's renowned longitudinal study and follows her participants' lives from their graduation to their early thirties.