Number 24 (2025)

Editors' Notes

Dear Readers:

We are pleased to share with you the twenty-fourth edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development. For twenty-four years, Growth has strived to provide readers with relevant original research and pertinent professional development to aid in our work with college students. As always, we trust that you will find the articles and book reviews in this current issue to be helpful in informing your work as educators.

This year, you will encounter three feature articles focusing on a program for building resiliency in college students, a study on the effects of a pornography use reduction program, and a model for thinking about retention. These articles are followed by five book reviews. We hope these articles and reviews introduce you to some new ideas and publications that can guide and shape your efforts as student development practitioners.

We are grateful to those who work to make Growth possible, including Julia VanderMolen, who serves in the role of Book Review Editor and our new Associate Editor, Pacey Ham Mitchell, who is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education Studies and Leadership program at Baylor University. They, along with our peer review team, have put forth great effort to produce an edition that represents strong scholarship and is diverse in its coverage of topics.

As we look forward, we particularly want to encourage you, the reader, to consider submitting manuscripts for consideration for future issues of Growth; the next edition will be published in the spring of 2026. In-depth publication guidelines are included on the Association for Christians in Student Development website. We are especially interested in manuscripts presenting original research and encourage anyone who has recently completed a graduate thesis or dissertation to submit an article.

The scholarship team would like to thank you for your support of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development. We hope you find it to be an engaging and insightful resource.

Sincerely,
Dr. Skip Trudeau, Co-Editor
Austin Smith, Co-Editor