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Student E-ffairs: Serving Students Online
Type of Presentation
Concurrent Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Online adult students' needs will be addressed and current practices examined, in order to advance student support and services in the future.
Target Audience
The target audience for this session would be higher education administrators and personnel, and adult students and educators. The purpose of the program is to increase awareness of the need to support and serve the growing student body online, and to provide information on how to better serve online adult students in the future.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Discuss the importance of implementing student services online in order to address the needs of on-campus and off-campus adult students.
Adapt their current student affairs model to integrate the needs of the growing online student population.
Advocate for and support online students as student affairs administrators continue to work to meet their needs and demands.
Session Description
This concurrent session is important to adult learners and educators because more and more adults are enrolling in online programs. The rate of growth of online enrollments continues to outpace the rate of growth for the total student population (Allen & Seaman, 2011). The majority of online learners are adult women between the ages of 25 and 45 (Noel-Levitz, 2012). Online courses are often the most convenient, and sometimes only option for adults that wish to earn a college degree. Many colleges and universities have services in place to support their on-campus students, but have been slow to provide the same level of support to online students (Shea & Armitage, 2003). In order to meet the needs and demands of this growing student population, university administrators and personnel must adapt and expand the services they offer to be more supportive for the online learner.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Kristin Mumiukha, University of Memphis
Work Title
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Stephanie Blaisdell, Ph.D., University of Memphis
Work Title
AVP Student Affairs for Student Development