post-traditional students Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/post-traditional-students/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:44:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Higher Education Will Be Forced to Do This Recession Differently, and That’s a Good Thing https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/04/higher-education-will-forced-recession-differently-thats-good-thing/ Mon, 04 May 2020 18:19:18 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16619 By Louis Soares and Burck Smith You know the familiar logic: Higher education is countercyclical. When everything else is contracting, colleges and universities are booming as Americans who would otherwise be working head to college. What is not as universally acknowledged is that while more students show up, not enough make it through. In the last recession, outcomes dipped, especially for ...

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]]> The Success of College Unbound https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/success-college-unbound/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:42:30 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16008 College Unbound, a nonprofit, independent college in Providence, Rhode Island, serves low-income working adults who are returning to college to earn their first degree. Four years ago, College Unbound was authorized as the 13th college in Rhode Island (the first new college in the state in two decades). Since then, it has earned candidacy for regional accreditation and qualified to participate ...

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]]> College Unbound and Education Reform https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/college-unbound-education-reform/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:17:41 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15999 By Johan E. Uvin During my last year as acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, I had the opportunity to visit College Unbound twice. The first time, I joined Lul Tesfai, my then colleague, and spent the night meeting students and participating in classes. Students shared their stories and their struggles in higher education before they got to ...

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]]> A College Unbound https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/a-college-unbound/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:16:59 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15997 By Robert L. Carothers In 2015, I joined the board of College Unbound (CU) after stepping down from serving as the president at the University of Rhode Island for 18 years. I did so because Dennis Littky had a vision of creating a college that would serve marginalized people who had once started college before life got in the way of ...

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]]> A Unique Experiment in Serving the Educationally Underserved https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/unique-experiment-serving-educationally-underserved/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:15:03 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15993 By David A. Bergeron Delivering high-quality postsecondary education to adult learners has long been a challenge. Traditional institutions of higher education are structured to recruit those soon to graduate from high school and, for the most part, are equipped to educate them once they get their high school diploma. Or at least that’s what they are designed to do best. Despite ...

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]]> A College Unbound: Cohorts, Educational Trauma, and Micromodels as Catalysts for Innovation https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/college-unbound-cohorts-educational-trauma-micromodels-catalysts-innovation/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:45:58 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15975 By Louis Soares and Ursula Gross The mismatch between a traditional college education and the vast number of adults who would benefit from a college degree is no small matter. There are at least 35 million adults who have some credit but no degree, and more than twice that have not even attempted postsecondary education, as we report in our new ...

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]]> Mental Health and Post-traditional Learners https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/04/22/mental-health-post-traditional-learners/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:57:52 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14902 By Gail Bruce-Sanford and Louis Soares This post is the latest in a series on college student mental health and well-being.  Ellen is married with three children. After the last of her kids was out of diapers, she enrolled at the local community college to earn an associate of arts in business administration and help contribute to her family’s income. She took classes ...

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]]> Cuyahoga Community College Brings Class on Wheels to Working Professionals https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/06/cuyahoga-community-college-brings-class-wheels-working-professionals/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:00:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14500 Cuyahoga Community College, also known as Tri-C, is increasing workers’ access to skills training throughout Northeast Ohio’s manufacturing sector by bringing a mobile classroom directly to the workplace. The mobile training unit was created by Tri-C’s Manufacturing Technology Center of Excellence to help employees upgrade their skills to keep up with changing technology, as well as strengthen the pipeline for the ...

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