The Need for Focus on Adult Student Success

Alan Tripp
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
InsideTrack

Our notion of the “traditional college student” needs to change. By the end of this decade, 46 percent or nearly half of all students in higher education will be over the age of 25.  According to government statistics, more than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008-2009 academic year.

As students get older and increasingly seek online or hybrid programs, higher education should focus on developing programs that are geared to this student population’s needs, as well as providing the support… Continue reading

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Posted on February 16, 2012 by Alan Tripp
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Coaching students for life at Notre Dame de Namur

By Heather Murtagh

Twenty-one-year-old Ashley Tuvell was excited to start her junior year at Notre Dame de Namur University last month.

As a transfer student, Tuvell was eager to move forward with her education and start her junior year — one step closer to her ultimate goal of teaching kindergarten. While Tuvell knows her ultimate goal, she also had a lot of questions, like: How to decipher the abbreviations for the buildings on the campus map? How to deal with questions about tuition from parents who are divorced? What are the best ways to make friends as an adult? How… Continue reading

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Posted on February 6, 2012 by trendadmin
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Blog post by Lloyd Armstrong: The State of the Union on college costs

So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can’t be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.

Barak Obama, State of Union 2012

Does this speech signal that the time has finally arrived when the government – which pays a good part of the bill – will step in to limit the rapid and seemingly never ending growth of tuition? In normal times, the answer would… Continue reading

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Posted on January 30, 2012 by trendadmin
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Five Crucial Questions to Ask Before Returning to School

 
Monster.com recently interviewed several experts regarding factors adults should consider before returning to school. InsideTrack CMO Jasmine Stirling highlighted the importance of assessing one’s long-term goals and the potential impact of adding school to an already busy life.

Learn more: careerbuilder.com

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Posted on January 24, 2012 by trendadmin
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UPCEA Brings Focus to Adult Student Success

By Kandace Gilligan

Institutions that enroll significant numbers of part-time and adult students know all too well the challenge of trying to measure student success rates. Since the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)—the main federal database of institution-level information—includes only first-time, full-time students, it is difficult to generate meaningful data for nontraditional students.Worse yet, there is ample evidence to suggest that the education outcomes of these uncounted students are quite poor. According to a report released by Complete College America earlier in September, in which data was collected from 33 states,… Continue reading

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Posted on January 24, 2012 by trendadmin
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