October 26, 2007
Community Colleges May Be Losing Their Edge in Educating Adults
Too often, conversations and policy debates about higher education ignore a key group of students, the forgotten majority: adult, "nontraditional" learners.
Last year I joined 18 others — educators, policy experts, and business leaders — on Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's National Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Despite our varied backgrounds, conversations focused on the traditional 18- to 22-year-old students attending selective
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