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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

EAB

Learn more Learn more about intent marketing to recruit adult learners How to support adult learners For adult learners, the weight of career, family, and other personal obligations can make college especially difficult to navigate. This is especially true of adult learners who started college but did not complete their degree.

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Maslow's Hierarchy in Action: How Student Affairs Can use the Framework for Better Assessment of Wellbeing

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Additionally, universities can offer financial aid and scholarships to students who may struggle to afford the cost of tuition or living expenses. But, again, we must be willing to seek feedback and respond—especially when it comes to finances. This can include security personnel, safety training, and campus-wide alert systems.

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Survey Highlights What Matters Most to Adult Learners

EAB

They also advise leaders to ensure they offer adult students maximum flexibility in course modalities and to highlight scholarship and financial aid opportunities that will make returning to college more affordable. It's important to note the increased importance of online support services as well.

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

Assisting Students with Maximizing Financial Aid, Transferring, and Post-graduation Support Since Arrupe’s model depends on students receiving the maximum amount of Pell grants and state aid possible. Wrapping Up Arrupe College is thriving, and its numbers prove the model works.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education.

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Understanding the ACBSP Accreditation Process

Creatrix Campus

The standards were designed to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of business programs in a holistic manner, taking into account factors such as mission, leadership, strategic planning, student learning, faculty qualifications and development, and educational support services. Is ACBSP accreditation good?

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Report Outlines Steps to Take to Support Students and Those Returning to College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some students placed on academic probation lost access to financial aid and needed to raise their GPA to regain access to aid—a common catch-22 whereby students cannot reenroll and improve their grades without financial aid, and cannot get financial aid unless they reenroll and improve their grades,” the report noted.