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Eichelberger, Brenda; Mattioli, Heather; Foxhoven, Rachel – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2017
Financial aid is designed to increase access to postsecondary education at all socioeconomic levels; however, college students are not always knowledgeable about personal finances or capable of making sound decisions regarding complex college and program choices, debt options, and long-term spending. This article reviews previous research on the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Mizzi, Robert C., Ed.; Rocco, Tonette S., Ed.; Shore, Sue, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2016
This groundbreaking book critiques the boundaries of where adult education takes place through a candid examination of teaching, learning, and working practices in the social periphery. Lives in this context are diverse and made through complex practices that take place in the shadows of formal systems: on streetscapes and farms, in vehicles and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Sexuality, Occupations
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Misawa, Mitsunori – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2010
Bullying is a serious problem in contemporary American society. Many adults are now suffering from bullying, which has conventionally been thought of as a childhood behavior. While a general form of bullying has been focused on by contemporary scholars, specific types of bullying (racist bullying and homophobic bullying) have not well been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bullying, Homosexuality, Adult Educators
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Hill, Robert J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter highlights the major themes presented in this volume. It also offers a glimpse into LGBTQ issues in organizational settings that remain underrepresented in adult, continuing, and higher education.
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Work Environment, Organizational Climate, Adult Education
Bettinger, Thomas V., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
This pre-conference, held in conjunction with the 49th annual Adult Education Research Conference at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in June, 2008, brought together graduate students and adult education researchers and practitioners from a variety of academic and workplace settings to discuss issues related to sexual minorities in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Adult Education, Marriage, Adult Learning
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Gedro, Julie – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter explores the challenges and the opportunities that lesbians experience in organizational America.
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Gender Issues, Corporations