The Other 85 Percent

Here is yet another article that details the need to help more adults complete a college degree, the importance of having a better educated citizenry, and some of the challenges facing states in promoting this agenda.
However, the situation is complicated by the fact that states, including those seeking to get more adults to graduate, are [...]

One of the questions I get about learning outcomes transparency is how faculty respond to this initiative.  The questions often come with an apparent bias that faculty would resist such an accountability approach.  While there may be some faculty who do not understand what we are doing and others who may be opposed, my experience [...]

Here is an interesting article on the Inside Higher Ed Web site describing the particular challenges and needs of adult students who are serving in the military. Note the concerns expressed that, in some cases, these adults learning at a distance from a campus are being charged for parking or for medical care! Clearly not [...]

While I have asserted that there is an obvious demand for more college-educated workers and our future depends on it, not all would agree.  Paul E. Barton concludes his article titled “How Many College Graduates Does the U.S. Labor Force Really Need?” by stating that “we should not just accept—and repeat—the now-conventional wisdom that there [...]

Here is an excellent article dealing with the knowledge economy and the increasing need for postsecondary education. Anthony P. Carnavale addresses the demand for more knowledge workers, the “skyrocketing” wage premium for postsecondary education, college as workforce development, and the potential for worker shortages. 

Here is yet another article that notes that our country is falling behind in the percentage of our population with a college degree.  It very appropriately calls for greater access for low-income and diverse students.  And it also appropriately calls for greater access for “continuing education students,” referring to today’s workforce, to working adult students.
Let [...]