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Direct linkBohonos, Jeremy William; James-Gallaway, Chaddrick; James-Gallaway, ArCasia D.; Turner, Francena F. L. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This article pushes towards the integration of the history of Black Adult Education (AE) into the broader history of AE literature and it contributes a critique of the field's general omissions and misrepresentations of Black history. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to critique the white-dominated history of AE texts and (2) to provide a…
Descriptors: African American Education, Adult Education, African American History, Historiography
Download full textKamia F. Slaughter; Nadrea Njoku – Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2024
In January 2024, UNCF's Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI) published "Adult Learner Initiative External Report," which outlined key findings and recommendations from an evaluation of the Adult Learner Initiative. To supplement and extend that work, Ascendium Education Group collaborated with FDPRI and Lumina Foundation to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Students, Rural Areas, Rural Education
Ahluwalia, Amrit – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
On May 11, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance for the $36 billion in emergency funding available to higher education institutions (HEIs). This new round of funding--authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act--makes $10 billion available to community colleges, $2.6 billion to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Community Colleges
Keeley Webb Copridge; Nadrea R. Njoku; Yanesia Norris; Kamia F. Slaughter; Josephy Emery-Kuaho; Alexus Laster – Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2024
To support and enhance educational attainment in the United States, the Lumina Foundation established a national goal of 60% of adults earning a high-quality credential by 2025. To achieve this goal, the Lumina Foundation expanded its funding to the adult learner population in 2017 by establishing the Adult Promise Initiative. The organization…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Adult Learning, Adult Students, African American Students
Patrice Sentino – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Since the beginning of the 21st century, higher education has changed drastically with instructional technology. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the perceived lived experiences among ten adult learners and how academic motivation influenced their learning in a technology-based learning environment. The…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment
de Brey, Cristobal; Snyder, Thomas D.; Zhang, Anlan; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The 2019 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 55th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
