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CONFERENCE ON ADULT LEARNER ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT 2013 Adult Learners as Loners: Ending the Marginalization of Adult Students Joseph Moore Lesley University July 18, 2013

Adult Learners as Loners:Ending the Marginalizationof Adult Students, Joseph Moore, Lesley University

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CALEM 2013 Presentation. Presentation answers the question "who goes to college" and where adult learners fit in to the numbers

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  • 1.CONFERENCE ON ADULT LEARNER ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT 2013 Adult Learners as Loners: Ending the Marginalization of Adult Students Joseph Moore Lesley University July 18, 2013

2. Who Goes To College? 2 3. Why Dont Adults Count? Because We Dont Count Them. Because We Dont See Them. Why Dont We Count Them? Why Dont We See Them? 3 4. Critical Theory Ideology . . . describes the system of beliefs, values, and practices that reflects and reproduces existing social structures, systems and relations. Ideology maintains the power of a dominant group or class by portraying as universally true beliefs that serve the interests mainly of this dominant group. Stephen Brookfield. The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching. 2005. 4 5. Ideology: College for the Young Portrayals abound of college and the young Numbers support cultural: we count the young We make adults invisible no portrayals, or show as comic, threatening, insignificant We dont count them Simplify complexity to affect resource distribution 5 6. Who Goes to College? 6 7. 2012 Educational Attainment, 25+ 11th grade or less: 12% 25M High school: 30% 62M Some college: 17% 34M Associate degree: 10% 20M Bachelors degree: 20% 40M Masters degree: 8% 16M Prof or doctoral degree: 3% 6M 7 8. Some College, No Degree 2012 25 and over 25-49 Women 18,091,000 9,318,000 Men 16,072,000 8,663,000 Total 34,163,000 17,981,000 Add those 20-24: 20,000,000 ++ 8 9. U.S. Higher Education Title IV Institutions: 7,416 Four-Year: 3,110 Two-Year: 2,263 Less than Two: 2,043 NCES 2013-289. Postsecondary Institutions and Cost of Attendance in 2012-13. Table 1: Number and Percentage Distribution of Title IV Institutions. 9 10. UG Student Enrollment, Fall 2011 4-year institutions: 10.6M 2-year institutions: 7.5M 4-year: 8.2M full-time 2-year: 4.3M part-time 2-year: 3.2M full-time 4-year: 2.4M part-time NCES. The Condition of Education, 2013. Chapter 4: Postsecondary Education, Indicator 32. 10 11. Fall 2010 Enrollment Non-Trad students are the majority. 24 and under: 12 million (57%) 25 and over: 9 million (43%) Students 24 and under, FT: 46% Students 25 and over, PT: 26% Students 25 and over, FT: 16% Students 24 and under, PT: 12% NCES. Digest of Education Statistics. Table 200: Total fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions . . . . 1970 through 2020. 11 12. Degrees Conferred, 2011-12 More than half of all degrees go to adults. Degrees conferred: 3.7 million Four-Year: Age 24 and under: 46.3% Age 25 and over: 53.7% Two-Year: Age 24 and under: 44.6% Age 25 and over: 55.4% NCES. Postsecondary Institutions and Cost of Attendance in 2012-13. Table 3: Number and percentage of degrees conferred . . . . 12 13. 13 Who Goes to College? 14. Who Goes to College? 14 15. US News and WR Rankings Points Categories Six-year graduation rate SAT/ACT scores High school class standing 15 16. US News and World Report National Liberal Arts Rankings: Top Ten Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton, Haverford, Claremont McKenna Total Undergrad Enrollment: 18,283 Total 24 or younger: 18,174 (99%) Adult Learners: 109 16 17. US News and World Report National University Rankings: Top Ten Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, U Chicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, UPenn, Cal Tech Total Undergrad Enrollment: 62,077 Total 24 or younger: 59,122 (95%) Adult Learners: 2,955 17 18. Ten Biggest Community Colleges Miami Dade, Lone Star, Northern VA CC, Broward, Houston CC, Austin CC, College of Southern Nevada, City College of SF, Santa Monica, Pasadena City College Total Enrollment: 453,269 Total 24 and younger: 277,411 (61%) Adult Learners: 175,858 18 19. Who Matters? Who Counts? Top Ten National Liberal Arts: 18,283 Top Ten National Universities: 62,077 Total UG enrollment: 80,360 Ten Biggest Comm. Colleges: 453,269 Ten CCs / 20 Top National: 5.5 X 19 20. Who Goes To College? 20 21. Who is Supposed To Do the Counting? National Center for Education Statistics NCES fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States . . . 21 22. NCES Cover Pages: NCES 2013-289 and NCES 2012-174 Find the adult learner . . . . 22 23. NCES Full-year cohort: the group of students entering at any time during the 12- month period . . . Students must be full time and first time to be considered in the cohort. Cost of attendance is also collected for full-time, first-time degree/certificate- seeking undergraduate students. (NCES 2013-289) 23 24. NCES Approximately 59 percent of full-time, first- time students at 4-year institutions in 2005 . . . completed . . within 6 years at the institution where they began their studies. (NCES 2012-174) The 2012 Graduation Rates components collected counts of full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students . . . at the same institution where the students started. (NCES 2012-174) 24 25. The Impact: Legislation/Regulation Financial Aid: Federal, State, Local Access to grants and loans for adult Retention and Graduation Rate Calculations The invisible adult learners Access to advising, information, programs 25 26. Who Makes the Rules? Congress Congressional Staffers U.S. Department of Education Educational Associations American Council on Education What Interests Do These Groups Represent? 26 27. The Adult Learner Not counted, not defined Non-traditional defines by negation I am not a non-righty College drop-out, non-completer Past: failures Present: constraints Future: pre-determined (wont get done) 27 28. Adult Learner Culture says to adults: college is for the young. You missed your time. College students = kids Message to adults: inadequacy Convinces the adult learner she is a party of one: a loner. Youre middle age, youre done, youre finished. I quit having those thoughts about going to college. It will never work. 28 29. Who Goes To College? 29 30. What Could Be More Traditional? Working, Paying Taxes Raising a family Voting Engaging in community service Taking classes American Values (Self Determination) 30 31. How to Count Adults Define adult population: anyone not first-time, full-time Can segment further, but not too far: Age 25 and older (FT and PT) Age 18-24: PT Age 18-24: FT and independent Veteran Has dependents Assign to an entering cohort. The individual is always a member of that cohort. Cohorts defined by semester start: Fall 12; Spring 13; Summer 13; Fall 13, etc. 31 32. Counting Adults In any semester, each learners status has one of three options: Currently enrolled Graduated Not graduated and not enrolled. (Could come back. Fine.) Calculation for retention and graduation rates. 32 33. One Adult Learner Institution Average UG age: 36 Average GR age: 42 Top age UG groups: 18-22 (9%) 23-27 (19%) 28-32 (14%) 33-37 (14%) 38-42 (14%) 43-47 (12%) 48-52 (9%) 33 34. Adult Learner Profile UG Full time: 25 35% (summer, spring, fall) UG Part time: 65 75% (fall, spring, summer) Credits transferred: 54 Credits by evaluation: 44 Time to bachelors degree: 3 years 20% in 2 yrs; 27% in 2-3 yrs; 19% in 3-4 yrs; 12% in 4-5 yrs; 20% in 5 yrs+ 34 35. What Adults Want Transfer credits to count (no time limit) Prior learning assessment Effective and reliable academic advising Various modes of learning / course deliveries Year round learning Accessible financial aid (grants & short-term loans) Treated as an adult, as if they matter (count) 35 36. Who Goes to College? 36 37. 37 Video clips Wheel of Fortune 2009 Merv Griffin Entertainment Legally Blonde 2001 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer March Madness- Relive the Legacy 2013 K8N Productions Community Trailer 2009 National Broadcasting Company Animal House 1978 Universal Pictures