Student Experience

Pedagogy for persistence: Designing courses that keep adult learners engaged

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Pedagogy that prioritizes persistence for adult learners is not just good teaching--it’s a commitment to equity, access, and education.
Colleges often talk about retention rates, but for adult learners, persistence is deeply personal. Every week, my students face the question: Do I have the energy, time, and…
Student Experience

Making research relevant: Teaching Human Services students to see themselves as knowledge builders

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When adult learners see themselves as contributors to knowledge, their relationship to education changes and they become knowledge builders.
Too often, students view research as something distant: Scholars write articles, and students read them. But for adult learners in Human Services, this division misses the point.
Recruitment & Enrollment

From freefall to flywheel: How small colleges can build a data-driven enrollment engine that lasts

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When small institutions align with data-driven enrollment engines, they produce outcomes that speak for themselves.
Across higher education, small private institutions are at an inflection point. Enrollment has fallen nearly 15 percent since 2019, and the traditional model of tuition dependence is showing…
Student Experience

From Brightspace to the workplace: Leveraging LMS for adult success

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When adult learners see the LMS not as a maze, but as a bridge, they engage more deeply and reach academic success.
For many faculty, the Learning Management System (LMS) is simply a place to upload syllabi and assignments. But for adult learners, who often study late at night after…