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Addressing the Degree Completion Agenda with Relevant, Rigorous, and Research Based Programs
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This concurrent session presents a program of study that is designed to assist adult learners with some college and no degree reach higher levels of baccalaureate attainment.
Target Audience
The U.S. Census Bureau (2008) reported that 38 million working-age Americans have some college credits but no degree. The Commonwealth of Kentucky has over 500,000 adults with some college and no degree. It is important that adults with some college and no degree reach higher levels of degree attainment without sacrificing quality learning outcomes. This session is designed for individuals in higher education that desire to craft, modify, and/or implement programs that facilitate efficient paths to bachelor’s degrees. The session will explore various methods of creating adult learner friendly practices that establish quality programming while yielding high rates of persistence.
Learning Outcomes
Session participants will leave with a set of action steps that aid in recruitment and retention of adult learners. The presenter will share recent findings from a study related to Entry, Academic, and External variables that impact adult student degree attainment. A theoretical model of adult student persistence will be examined and curriculum specific to the Organizational Leadership and Learning program at the University of Louisville will be displayed.
Session Description
This concurrent session presents a program of study that is designed to assist adult learners with some college and no degree reach higher levels of baccalaureate attainment. Degree completion programs are often scrutinized for their lack of rigor. This program balances the degree completion agenda with a set of curriculum that is relevant, rigorous, and research based. If universities can leverage resources to recruit, retain, and graduate more adult while maintaining a high level of academic rigor, national and local attainment goals have a much greater chance of being reached. Understanding the factors that significantly impact adults students (25 years and older) can arm faculty, staff, and administrators with effective policy and procedure that will remove barriers from adult student degree completion while maintaining high quality learning outcomes.
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
Matt Bergman, Ph.D., University of Louisville
Work Title
Assistant Professor