Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each annual volume contains chapters that discuss salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries on topics pertaining to college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world. This book contains the following chapters: (1) A First-Generation Scholar's "Camino de Conocimiento" (Laura Ignacia Rendón); (2) The History of Religion in American Higher Education (Andrea L. Turpin); (3) An Interdisciplinary Return to Queer and Trans* Studies in Higher Education (Antonio Duran, Reginald A. Blockett, and Z Nicolazzo); (4) Toward a More Critical Understanding of the Experiences of Division I College Athletes (Eddie Comeaux); (5) Reimagining the Study of Campus Sexual Assault (Jessica C. Harris, Krystle P. Cobian, and Nadeeka Karunaratne); (6) Institutional Barriers, Strategies, and Benefits to Increasing the Representation of Women and Men of Color in the Professoriate (Kimberly A. Griffin); (7) The Ambivalence About Distance Learning in Higher Education (Di Xu and Ying Xu); (8) Learning to Change and Changing to Learn (Aimee La Pointe Terosky and Katie Conway); (9) Evaluation and Decision Making in Higher Education (Julie Posselt, Theresa E. Hernandez, Cynthia D. Villarreal, Aireale J. Rodgers, and Lauren N. Irwin); (10) Trends and Perspectives on Finance Equity and the Promise of Community Colleges (Alicia C. Dowd, Kelly Ochs Rosinger, and Marlon Fernandez Castro); (11) Privatization as the New Normal in Higher Education (Kevin R. McClure, Sondra N. Barringer, and Joshua Travis Brown); and (12) A Primer for Interpreting and Designing Difference-in-Differences Studies in Higher Education Research (Fernando Furquim, Daniel Corral, and Nicholas Hillman). [For the previous volume, "Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volume 34," see ED594480.]