Today’s Learner
The age of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student as higher education’s main demographic is over. Today, higher education institutions must serve a rich student population with unique demands and specific needs. Colleges and universities must work harder than ever to understand and serve today’s students.
What Millennials Want: Delivering Continuing Ed to Different Generations of Adult Learners
Gabe Clevenger | Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management for Champlain Online, Champlain College Melissa MarcelloDifferent generations of adult learners are coming to continuing education for vastly different reasons. From millennials to baby boomers, each has unique goals, needs and expectations of their postsecondary institution.…
2020: The Year of Boutique Employability
Julia Ivy | Faculty Director of the Masters in International Management, Northeastern UniversityAt the beginning of December, a journalist from Northeastern University contacted me to schedule an interview about my research on personal strategy and my recently published book Crafting Your EDGE…
Mature Workers in a Global Economy: The Importance of Community Colleges
Phyllis Cummins | Senior Research Scholar in the Scripps Gerontology, Miami UniversityAdults ages 40 and above represent over half of the labor force in the U.S. and that proportion is projected to remain constant through 2028. At the same time, the…
The Wellness-Completion Connection: A New Approach to Student Mental Health
Anita Burns | Executive Director of Student Accessibility, Excelsior College Dave JarratThe transition to college life can trigger a perfect storm of mental duress, with career and financial uncertainty, social pressures and a torrent of new experiences. The statistics are startling.…
Building Intercultural Competence: New Approaches for Intergenerational Learning
Sandra Janusch | Assistant Vice Provost for International & Academic Programs in the Continuum College, University of Washington“I think there was a bit of a disconnect with the varying ages of people in this course. It felt that a lot of the older people felt entitled to…
Education Consumers Are Speaking; Policymakers, Educators, Employers Must Listen
Carol D'Amico | Executive Vice President, Strada Education NetworkTo understand how American consumers value anything—from the gadgets they purchase to their Uber rides or restaurant experiences—we simply ask them. So why not ask the consumers of education how…
Stop Thinking of College as “An Investment”
Ross O'hara | Behavioral Researcher, Persistence PlusThe language we use to describe the world shapes our very understanding of it. As detailed by Dr. Lera Boroditsky at UC San Diego, the affordances or limitations of our…