The 44th annual conference of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) was held at the University of Central Florida in March 2020. Papers in these proceedings include the following: (1) Enhancing Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom: An Exploration of Qualitative Student Assessment (Jeff Aulgur); (2) Does Gender Influence Major Selection? Gender Segregation within Higher Education (Jennifer Castellanos); (3) Coming to America: Current Immigration Policies Embraced by International Students Majoring in STEM (Aynur Charkasova and Yvonne Hunter-Johnson); (4) The Changing College Experience as We Age (Patricia G. Coberly-Holt); (5) Adult Undergraduate Students as a Minoritized Student Population: Implications on Sense of Belonging at Four-Year Institutions (Michael D. Giacalone); (6) Saved by Bell: Using Hooks as an Intervention into Southern Higher Education Curriculum (Edith Gnanadass, Kyle Bellue, Chan Dunn, & Jessie Tinoco); (7) Experiences of Non-traditional Age Students in Conducting Research (Marilyn S. Lockhart and Elyse D'nn Lovell); (8) "Right Now, I'm Narrowing It Down": Career Development in Undergraduate STEM Majors (Joann S. Olson, Yun Wan, and Beverly C. Tomek); (9) An Engaged and Empowerment Based Reciprocal Pedagogy: Addressing Shame with Adult Learners Returning to College (Julie M. Skogsbergh); and (10) The Benefits of Reflection on Improving Teaching through Change: A Reflective Model for Professional Development (Rachel Wlodarsky). [For the 2019 proceedings, see ED597786.]