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The Express: November 21, 2002, Taylor University Fort Wayne

2002-2003 (Volume 7)

MBA program to begin in fall — Who’re you gonna call? — Oakwood to receive cable access — Tawnia Comer Benefit raises more than $1,600 — An excerpt from the Introduction — Fill your gas tank elsewhere — The Express Index — ‘Curious Savage’ comes to TUFW — Pass me the Tofurkey, please — Connect to campus with Commuter Council — Man, it’s not about the pompoms — Men’s basketball season begins with tough schedule — The Top Ten

Fort Wayne Alumnus, Taylor University Fort Wayne

TUFW Alumni Publications (All)

The Fall 2002 edition of The Fort Wayne Alumnus, published by Taylor University Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Toward A "Formula For Success"--Using Oral Histories To Help Students Succeed When Everything Seems To Be Working Against Them, Michelle Navarre Cleary

Michelle Navarre Cleary

Many of the students at Olive-Harvey College, a community college on Chicago's south side, are struggling to balance their education with low income, service sector jobs and family needs while living in communities plagued by drugs and violence. The question is how teachers can help these students to attain their educational goals, despite their life crises. To find the answer, one instructor turned to the students who had successfully completed her English 102 capstone writing course the previous fall--students who are the exception and not the rule. She interviewed 13 out of 20 students in the class and found that …

The Express: February 21, 2002, Taylor University

2001-2002 (Volume 6)

Chancellor returns as speaker for Spiritual Renewal Week — Comedy, music merge in student-created FNL — TSO News — Pressure? Of course not, I’m a resident student — The problem of “Christian” community — The Express Index — Author Bob Hostetler helps students write next chapter — Q & A with Dr. Kesler — See the world, meet new people—study abroad — As season ends, Falcons evolve and press forward — The Top Ten — Despite key losses, women maintain winning record

The Adult Student In Higher Education And Training, Kathlee Despain-Rogers

Theses

This thesis will focus on the needs of the adult or nontraditional student. An in-depth look at bow non-traditional students came to be and how higher education is accommodating them today and tomorrow.

Before 1944, adult students were not commonplace on college campuses. At that time even high school graduation was a rare achievement. However, The Servicemen's (and women's) Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as "The GI Bill," changed all that. The Act provided many benefits but it is best known for giving former soldiers, both male and female, a chance at a college education or a degree from …