Research shows that adults often enter college with a goal in mind, such as a career pivot, additional education in their current industry or completion of a degree they previously started. But ...

Higher education was built around a fairly simple model: students finish school, enter college full-time and move into the ...

Scenario-based learning is in line with strategies for teaching adults known as andragogy, a term popularized in contemporary higher education by Malcolm Knowles (1913–1997), a central figure in U.S.

Adult learners in colleges and universities nationally comprise about a quarter of all undergraduate students. Although that figure fluctuates in relation to the overall economy and varies further ...

As institutions nationwide face enrollment declines and demographic pressures, they are increasingly looking to re-enroll adults who started college but never finished—not only to fill their coffers ...

There’s an incredibly important program that takes place in the back lots of a number of K-12 school sites. Adult Education serves students aged 18 and over in English as a second language (ESL), ...

As the dean of the Hamilton Holt School of Professional Advancement and Graduate Studies at Rollins College, I meet a variety of adult learners returning to finish or obtain a college degree. These ...

SOUTH BEND — When South Bend native Laquisha Jackson became pregnant in high school, she made the decision to pause her education. Now 41 years old, Jackson has founded her own catering company and ...

Dianne Brewington, an instructor with Literacy KC at their newest headquarters in the old Westport Middle School in Kansas City. The organization that helps adults and families to improve literacy ...