Adult Students Resources*

Learning in the Fast Lane: Adult Learners' Persistence and Success in Accelerated College Program

Lumina Foundation Report plus follow-up summary.

Returning to Learning Lumina Foundation Report

Adult Student Services Resource Links

• Bucks County Community College
• DePaul School on New Learning
• Kansas State University Adult Student Services
• Kent State University
• Meredith College
• University of Akron Adult Focus
• University of Delaware ACCESS Center Adult Centers for Continuing Education Student Services
• University of Tennessee
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• UW Waukesha

Adult Student Organizations

• Bibliography of organizations for adult learners
• Association of Nontradtional Students in Higher Education
• OWLS Older Wiser Learners Middle Tennessee State University
• RASO Returning Adult Student Organization Penn State University

Resources

• Advising Adult Learners Commission Resources and News Updates
• Adult Student.com
• The mother/scholar and on-campus child care via Sloan Work and Family Boston College
• Children in the classroom (college and university policies)
  • Metropolitan State University (page down)
  • Monash University
  • University of Memphis

• College's Most Important Trend is the Rise of the Adult Student via The Atlantic

• Connecting Returning Adults with Careers
• Degrees of Difficulty video series
• Encouraging college student success: the instructional challenges, response strategies, and study skills of contemporary undergraduates
• Lifespan development and lifelong learning
• Principles of Adult Learning
• Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community colleges via mdrc.org
• Returning adults: Four keys to academic success and retention via Academic Impressions
• 2003 Bibliographies
  • Adult Learner Research
  • Adult Student Advising Sources
  • Nontraditional Sources
  • Nontraditional Student Sources