The Adult Returners Key Skills project uses a series of teaching/learning packs to develop key skills (information technology, communications, numeracy, active citizenship). The packs help reentry students become aware of their existing abilities and prior learning experiences. (SK)

Career exploration is as important for adults as for younger students. Many adults are using reentry centers for assessment, information, counseling, and training to effect career changes. (SK)

Adults returning to school may experience shyness when speaking to teachers and in seminars. Causes include lack of confidence, feeling inadequate or out of place, and imagining themselves inferior to younger students. Increasing familiarity with college and opportunities to practice academic skills in supportive conditions may help. (SK)

Interviews with 19 African-American college students age 24 and older indicated that they reentered college with a clearer sense of their goals. To them, meaningful learning had real-world relevance. Self-efficacy was a key to their success and faculty and personal support made a difference. (SK)

A survey of 14 access coordinators and 15 students in Britain's Open College Network showed that credit may be working against the spirit of support and critical inquiry that underlies access to higher education programs; 57% felt that staff, management, and employers benefit more than students from a credit framework. (SK)

In-depth interviews with 30 Chicanos/Chicanas identified structural constraints impeding adult education participation. Themes included marginalization (exclusion, invisibility, inferior status); learner expectations of the environment, organization, and teaching-learning exchange; and intercultural understanding (cultural identity and language).…

Mountain Empire Community College (MECC)'s service region covers the extreme southwestern corner of Virginia and includes four counties and one city: Dickenson, Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties, and the city of Norton. With a service region population of 93,000 residents, MECC currently serves over 5,000 students annually (Mountain Empire Community…

Each year, more than 8,200 young Philadelphians drop out of school. The first step to a solution, taken in 2005, was the gathering and examination of data to truly understand the dimensions of the problem and the characteristics of struggling students and out-of-school Philadelphia youth. These studies, conducted by researchers at the University…

This exploratory study examined the reasons women return to school and the services which they demand as reentry students. The respondents represented female students, undergraduate and graduate, 25 years of age and older, at five institutions in four states. Of 419 surveys distributed, 383 were returned, for a response rate of 91 percent. Data…

Information and suggestions are presented in this guide to assist the re-entering female student in her adjustment to college. First, the guide looks at reasons for attending college and provides an overview of some of the barriers and problems to be overcome by a woman with a family who has been away from school for some time. Some of the…

Examined selected life events experienced by 322 reentry women students, the types of social support they received for these events, and their satisfaction with the support. Mean satisfaction with support received varied strongly with desirability of the event. Type of life event was moderately correlated with percentage of support. (Author/BL)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether motives for returning to college among undergraduate reentry women could be grouped into patterns and whether these reentry women could be grouped by motive-types. Eight distinct motives and eight motive typologies resulted from the analyses. (Author/CT)

Investigates value conflicts among young college students. Results indicate that women are more torn between their career and family roles than are men. Further, security versus the risky pursuit of success and making money versus seeking nonmaterialistic fulfillment were common conflicts among graduate students. (Author/BL)

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men, this paper reveals that earnings below expectations induce a return to school. Appended are 12 references. (MLF)

Using the tenets of feminist therapy, presents a career counseling model for reentry women. Describes goals, intervention strategies, and feminist tenets for each of three stages: stabilization; personal growth; and action. (MCF)