Research on Adult Learners: Supporting the Needs of a Student Population that Is No Longer Nontraditional
This post was orginally published on https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/research-adult-learners-supporting-needs-student-population-no Adult students have been a growing presence on college campuses during recent decades and there are numerous indicators that these students, often referred to as “nontraditional,” constitute a significant proportion of the undergraduate student body. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data indicate that 38 percent of the 2007 …