Adult Learners in Higher Education: Barriers to Success and Strategies to Improve Results
This report synthesizes research on the challenges facing adult learners in higher education today and on emerging strategies for increasing the number of adults over 24 who earn college credentials and degrees. A key finding is that traditional higher education programs and policies created when the 18- to 22-year-old, dependent, full-time student was more common are not well designed for the needs of adult learners, most of whom are employees who study rather than students who work.
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