April 13, 2007
Mapping the Misunderstood Population of Adult Students
A report examines their status and urges colleges to think differently about them
A recovering alcohol and drug addict in her 30s. A former truck driver who lived in his car for six months. And a single mother with epilepsy. Each of them is part of an all-too-often invisible class of Americans: adult college students.
Adult students are not well documented, are frequently left out of discussions of higher-education policy, and are not fully understood by the colleges they
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