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ERIC Number: ED583640
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Mar
Pages: 52
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Pathways to Align Career and Educational Choices for Adult Learners
Ippolito, Andrew
Achieving the Dream
Now, more than ever, more adults must earn college credentials in order to earn family sustaining wages and to help fuel and sustain a robust national economy. That means that institutions of higher education must do all they can to help adult students enroll in college and complete a postsecondary credential. Achieving the Dream emphasizes a student-centered approach, which calls for ensuring that the burden of accessing supports within the college is not on the student and that colleges intentionally design a college experience that increases success for adult students. Achieving the Dream has identified three guiding principles: (1) Easy student navigation; (2) Connection by design; and (3) Institutional champions and the college culture. This report looks at the three areas defined as particularly relevant to helping adult students and the steps that have been taken to identify the guiding principles. Summaries highlight this work in practice at several institutions: Milwaukee Area Technical College (WI), Cleveland State Community College (TN), Northcentral Technical College (WI), Mountwest Community and Technical College (WV), Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, Blue Mountain Community College (OR), Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, Spokane Falls Community College (WA), Anoka-Ramsey Community College (MN), Community College of Rhode Island, and Lakeshore Technical College (WI). The end of this report includes an inventory of college practices currently in use to attract and retain adult learners. These practices are divided into three tiers and allow readers to consider how they might adopt and adapt these practices for use at their own institutions.
Achieving the Dream. 8455 Colesville Road Suite 900, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Tel: 240-450-0075; Fax: 240-450-0076; e-mail: info@achievingthedream.org; Web site: http://www.achievingthedream.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Lumina Foundation
Authoring Institution: Achieving the Dream, Inc.
Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin (Milwaukee); Ohio (Cleveland); Wisconsin; Tennessee; West Virginia; Arkansas; Oregon; Washington; Minnesota; Rhode Island
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A