post-traditional students Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/post-traditional-students/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 25 Nov 2024 01:45:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png post-traditional students Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/post-traditional-students/ 32 32 For Adult Learners, College Means More Than Just Jobs and Wages https://www.higheredtoday.org/2024/11/22/college-means-more-adult-learners/ Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:42:32 +0000 https://www.higheredtoday.org/?p=28931 Title: Multiple Meanings of College: How Adult Learners Make Sense of Postsecondary Education & Why It Matters Authors: Melanie Shimano and Becky Klein-Collins Source: Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Stanford Pathways Network, and Strada Education Foundation When adults decide to go back to college, some people assume their motivations are purely economic—to get a better job, make more money, or ...

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]]> How Alternative Credentials are Shaping Modern Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2024/01/12/how-alternative-credentials-are-shaping-modern-education/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:28:13 +0000 https://www.higheredtoday.org/?p=18055 Title: Alternative Credentials: Business and Program Models – Study Findings and Takeaways Source: University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) In a new report, UPCEA explores the dynamic field of alternative credentials and the increasing adoption of these credentials by higher education institutions, including offerings like non-credit and professional certificates, badges, bootcamps, and MOOCs. As the report notes, 20 percent of ...

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]]> Mapping the Ecosystem of Alternative Postsecondary Education Providers https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/03/22/mapping-the-ecosystem-of-alternative-postsecondary-education-providers/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:01:07 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17917 For the past three centuries, slowness has been a feature of American higher education, not a bug. The deliberate pace of knowledge generation, the time-consuming process of peer review, and the glacial rate at which new knowledge is integrated into the curriculum all reflect a respect for truth over expediency. But over the last two decades, U.S. colleges and universities have ...

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]]> Closing Persistence Gaps for Part-time Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/02/16/closing-persistence-gaps-for-part-time-students/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:00:11 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17900 Title: Building on Completion Gains: Amplifying Progress and Closing Persistent Gaps Source: Complete College America Today’s college students have become increasingly fluid, entering and exiting college often due to work, caregiving, or financial constraints. This often leads to students pursuing college part-time, which affects their persistence and completion rates. At the intersections of age, race, and enrollment are students who face ...

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]]> Working Learners and Work Colleges: Innovating at the Intersection of Education and Life https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/12/13/working-learners-and-work-colleges-innovating-at-the-intersection-of-education-and-life/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:06:25 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17884 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” —Arundhati RoyFinancial Times, April 3, 2020 In the early months of COVID-19, novelist Arundhati Roy suggested that the trauma and tragedy of the pandemic could be the gateway to ...

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]]> Designing Equity-Minded Work-Based Learning Opportunities for Community College Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/10/03/designing-equity-minded-work-based-learning-opportunities-for-community-college-students/ Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:16:35 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17851 Title: What Everyone Should Know about Designing Equity-Minded Paid Work-Based Learning Opportunities for College Students Author: Mauriell H. Amechi Source: New America Community college students often find themselves excluded from participating in work-based learning (WBL) opportunities, which can be crucial for future employability. In a new report, New America showcases how five community colleges center equity in redesigning WBL to be ...

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]]> How Higher Education Institutions Can Address the Needs of Adult Learners https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/04/18/how-higher-education-institutions-can-address-the-needs-of-adult-learners/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:00:31 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17786 Title: Three Key Challenges To Meeting Adult Learners’ Needs—And How To Solve Them Source: Guild Education and Higher Ed Dive A recent report offers insights about challenges faced by adult learners and how postsecondary institutions can address them. Adult learners—sometimes called post-traditional students—are those 25 years old or older. Three-fourths of these students work while in college, with almost half working ...

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]]> How Are Universities Responding to the Changing U.S. Workforce? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/01/24/how-are-universities-responding-to-the-changing-u-s-workforce/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17729 Title: Building a future workforce for all learners: How public and land-grant universities and urban serving universities drive innovative solutions Author: Andréa Rodriguez, Sheila A. Martin, and Bernard Mair Source: Association of Public and Land Grant Universities and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities As the pressure on higher education to adapt to needs of students in the 21st century, new models ...

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]]> New Resource Aims to Improve Student Success, Job Outlook for Post-Traditional Learners https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/09/20/new-resource-aims-to-improve-student-success-job-outlook-for-post-traditional-learners/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:29:15 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17651 Report: The Accelerating Recovery through Credentials Adult-Ready Playbook Source: Education Strategy Group A new resource from the Education Strategy Group (ESG) seeks to equip institution and state leaders to better support post-traditional students as competing challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and labor market demands, impact adult-learner success. The Adult-Ready Playbook is the second resource to emerge out of ESG’s Accelerating Recovery through Credentials, an initiative ...

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]]> Virtual Learning Can Be a Gateway to Increasing Equity in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/09/08/virtual-learning-can-gateway-increasing-equity-higher-education/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:52:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17636 By Joseph I. Castro When an entire nation of college students suddenly found themselves faced with the reality of closed campuses in spring 2020, the disruption caused by the abrupt pivot to learning in an environment without classroom instruction was daunting. What followed, however, would be more than a year of resilience, adaptability, and resolve demonstrated by students, faculty, and staff ...

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]]> Bringing Jobs and Workers Together in the New Skills Economy https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/07/19/bringing-jobs-workers-together-new-skills-economy/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:51:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17614 By Louis Soares and Amber Garrison Duncan There are nearly 1 million unique credentials offered in the United States, including certificates, micro-credentials, badges, and certifications in addition to traditional degrees. Yet learners are struggling to find pathways to economic mobility in a labor market that still values four-year degrees: Approximately 70 million adults have the skills to do middle- and high-wage ...

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]]> New Data Details COVID-19 Transfer Trends https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/04/26/new-data-details-covid-19-transfer-trends/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:55:16 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17478 Title: COVID-19 Transfer, Mobility, and Progress: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Update on Transfer Students Source: National Student Clearinghouse The National Student Clearinghouse released the third report in its COVID-19 series on student transfer patterns. Trends represent 8.8 million undergraduates, with 74 percent of colleges reporting data by February 25, 2021. Key findings include: Overall transfer enrollment for the academic year ...

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