Dear partners and innovators,
Adult learners are the future.
That's what Glenn DuBois, retiring chancellor of Virginia's Community Colleges, just wrote in the Richmond Times-Dispatch this week: The future I see for Virginia's Community Colleges.
The Lab agrees — but we consider adult learners among the new majority learners. Based on today’s enrollment numbers, and certainly population trends, the once-thought “nontraditional” students are the new majority of learners today. College was never designed for students of color, those who are likely older, working while in school, or supporting a family, those who might be under-resourced, or have time commitments related to work or childcare that prevent a traditional route to college.
If you want to understand the challenges adults face in enrolling in higher education — and how institutions can reorient themselves around their needs — then you may be interested in a webinar happening TODAY.
Lab Founder + CEO Kathleen deLaski will join the panel:
Regaining Learners’ Trust: Strategies for Adult Student Re-Enrollment
🗓️ Thursday, May 19, noon EST
The webinar, co-hosted by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the Presidents Forum, is the first in the Presidents Forum’s Advancing Adult Learner Success convening series.
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