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Why we must improve opportunity and accessibility for adult learners

University Business

between 2005 and 2021. Flexible admission criteria, which take into account their diverse experiences and prior learning Student support services: Ensuring students have well-being services available to them, along with support networks with other mature students.

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J. Their student life initiatives support and reinforce their academic offerings. Pascarella and Patrick T. Mayhew, Alyssa N. Rockenbach, Nicholas A. Bowman, Tricia A. Seifert, and Gregory C.