Creating a Place for Adult Learners in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities (Paperback)

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Understanding Adult Learners

3. Rethinking Admissions and Recruitment for the Adult Student

4. The Challenges of Financial Support for Adult Students

5. Institutions and Programs designed with adult students in Mind: Past and Present

6. Teaching Adult Learners in Higher Education

7. Academic Advising and Support Services and Adult Learners

8. Non-academic Supports for Adults

9. Student Success: Issues related to Persistence and Completion

10. Adult Undergraduate Collegiate Outcomes

11. The Leadership Challenge: Serving Adults in a Collegiate World

12. Conclusions, Trends, and future Directions