MetLife Phase 2:

Counselor Community of Practice

Introductions (10 min)

Making Mature Students a Priority (30 min)

Buy-in

Services

Marketing

Resources to Make Your Job Easier (30 min)

Share your best tools. No secrets allowed!

Your Best Ideas from Today (15 min)

Confirm next COP topics (5 min)

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Agenda – Virtual Session #1

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Today’s Emphasis

Working Adults without a Degree

Those age 18-64 are in three major groups:

Adults who have dropped out of high school and have no college education - about 26.4 million adults.

Adults who have a high school diploma but have no college education - about 56 million adults.

Adults who have a high school diploma who have some postsecondary education but no degree -about 42.5 million adults.

Adult Learning Satisfaction-

Community Colleges

Scale Performance

Mean

Satisfaction

Mean

Performance Gap

Mean

Outreach 6.52 5.61 .91

Financing 6.42 5.40 1.02

Life and Career

Planning

6.41 5.19 1.22

Teaching-Learning

Process

6.34 5.71 .63

Transitions 6.32 5.35 .97

Technology 6.33 5.70 .63

Student Support

Systems

6.25 5.38 .87

Assessment of

Learning Outcomes

6.14 5.42 .72

•(7 = very important /very satisfied 1 = not important/not satisfied at all)

•Source: Noel-Levitz/CAEL 2011 National Adult Learners Satisfaction-Priorities Report

How are mature students viewed at your college?

Are you a chorus of one?

Is there a plan to serve this population?

Do you offer PLA? What methods?

What are you doing to make them feel welcome?

What programs are in place for orientation and areas

of special need (e.g. technology)?

How are you using mature students to benefit the

college?

Marketing

Where are you casting the net for mature students?

With whom are you partnering in the community?

Is the mature student represented in your materials?

Have you checked/suggested changes since the

meeting? 6

Making Mature Students a Priority

What is the best resource/tool

you’ve identified in the past year?

What is the one assessment

you won’t do without?

If you could add one more tool

to your toolkit, what would it be?

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Making Your Job Easier

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Advising Avenue

Tools to share with students

How keyed in is your faculty?

LinkedIn – “CAEL Career Pathways

and Counselor Initiative”

Post and check

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Materials & Next Session