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 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 Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on current important issues 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 other key aspects of higher education administration. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Forward March: Living an Academic Life (William G. Tierney); (2) Reforming Transitions from High School to Higher Education (Christine G. Mokher); (3) The Limits of Choice: A Black Feminist Critique of College "Choice" Theories and Research (Channel C. McLewis); (4) Queer and Trans College Student Success (Jason C. Garvey and C. V. Dolan); (5) Strengthening Outcomes of Adult Students in Community Colleges (Peter Riley Bahr, Claire A. Boeck, and Phyllis A. Cummins); (6) Toward a Critical Social Movements Studies (Samuel D. Museus and Brenda Jimenez Sifuentez); (7) Patterns in the Study of Academic Learning in US Higher Education Journals, 2005-2020 (Lisa R. Lattuca); (8) The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (James Soto Antony and Tamara Lynn Schaps); (9) A Mid-Career Faculty Agenda (Vicki L. Baker and Caroline E. N. Manning); (10) Four Decades of Performance Funding and Counting (Amy Y. Li); (11) US Higher Education Internalization Through an Equity-Driven Lens (Chrystal A. George Mwangi and Christina W. Yao); and (12) Understanding the Complexities of Experimental Analysis in the Context of Higher Education (Brent Joseph Evans). [For the previous volume, "Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volume 35," see ED604823.]