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Children Around The World, Azucena Franco
Nontraditional Adult Learners: The Neglected Diversity In Postsecondary Education, Joseph Chen
Nontraditional Adult Learners: The Neglected Diversity In Postsecondary Education, Joseph Chen
School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty Publications
In the discourse on diversity in colleges and universities in the United States, an often-neglected population is nontraditional adult learners. This article explores this invisible aspect of undergraduate diversity, and addresses how competence-based education, which focuses on demonstrating the actual ability to do , is an innovative approach that caters to adult learners’ life phase and learning needs. College arguably is a youth-centric phase of life generally designed for the younger student.However, the stereotypical full-time student who lives on campus is actually a small percentage of the entire postsecondary population. Due to the demands of an increasingly competitive world of …