Colleges Woo Adults Who Have Some Credits but No Degree

Autor/in	Sander, Libby
Titel	Colleges Woo Adults Who Have Some Credits but No Degree
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 23, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Credits; Adult Students; College Faculty; Dropouts; Time to Degree; Academic Persistence; Labor Force; Bachelors Degrees; Student Recruitment; Teacher Education; Human Capital; Student Financial Aid; Student Personnel Services; School Holding Power; Kentucky + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; Achievement; Performance; Anrechnung; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Leistung; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Fakultät; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Humankapital; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung
Abstract	There are 11,000 or so people in Kentucky who came within a course or two of earning a college degree, but never did. Almost half a million more took a few college courses but then dropped out. Now educators are trying to lure back those erstwhile students to finish what they started. Over the next 12 years, Kentucky wants to double the number of adults in its work force who hold college degrees. Officials say that goal is impossible unless they can persuade thousands of adults with some college credits to re-enroll at one of the state's public four-year institutions. And so the state is making a huge push to bring adults back to college. This month educators and state officials met in Lexington to kick off the Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative and discuss how to make the state's higher-education system friendlier to older students. It is the beginning of a multi-year effort that will focus on financial aid, professional development for faculty members who teach adults, and student-support services, among other areas. The immediate goal is to bring back those 11,000 adults who completed 90 or more credit hours. If that program, called Project Graduate, succeeds, officials say they will ask the State Legislature in 2010 for permanent changes in higher-education policy. Later the scope could broaden to include the thousands more Kentuckians who have varying amounts of course work under their belts. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10