Hands-on learning with business professionals is at the heart of the educators' approach with the Piedmont Futures program at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Too often educators provide the answers before students have asked the questions; they create career pathways without providing students with sufficient opportunities to explore which…

Many of the community-college faculty hired during the 1960s and 1970s had initially embarked on K-12 teaching but moved into community-college instruction after discovering they preferred adult education and college schedules. While these former K-12 teachers had little to no instruction in how adults learn, their formative teaching years were…