Narratives of three graduate and five undergraduate black women reentering education were analyzed using black feminist thought. They faced issues involving power relations based on race, gender, and class that are usually ignored in studies of reentry students. They used strategies of silence, negotiation, and resistance. (SK)

Reports that the population of women in community college programs has grown and diversified with an increasing number of single parents; older, single women; low-income women; and women of color. Presents results of a study, which confirmed that the presence of a strong counseling and support network for the reentry female is vital to her…

A cost-benefit model for calculating private rates of return to education uses existing wage structure, cost of education, and risk premiums for school dropout. A Swiss study applying the model shows that, once educational costs are deducted, wage earning advantages for different educational levels are insignificant. (SK)

This study examines the value importance to baby boomers of the community college as a means to reinvent or modify self-view and how value importance influences intent to return to the college for further educational services. Understanding the reinvention-self-identity modification phenomenon can help institutions create more satisfying…

The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) was assigned the task of compiling, analyzing, and summarizing the data for Indicator 1--Graduation--from the FFY 2008 Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and amended State Performance Plans (SPPs), which were submitted by States to the Office of Special Education…

A study identified the characteristics of women in an adult literacy program who had been successful in their return to studies. It was designed to learn more about the needs of women learners and what literacy programs can do to help women be successful in their return to studies. The literature review focused on these topics: women's knowledge,…

Project Re-Entry was a follow-up study of the status of more than 5,000 former students of the Tri-County Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who either never completed the entire General Educational Development (GED) test battery or completed the entire GED battery but still lacked enough points to earn a GED…

Personal characteristics of adult undergraduates who are 36 years old and older were studied. A sample of 24 adult students from a state-supported, urban university were interviewed/taped, and audio recordings were reviewed for descriptions of sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics. The dominant student profile was of a 44-year-old…

Re-entry female students are unique in one particularly important way: they respond and grow under even the most difficult conditions. The classroom and the text are two contexts in which the factor of gender appears to have affected these students' attitudes toward writing and their expectations as writers. Central to both of these contexts are…

A study examined American college and university students' successful reentry, hypothesized to be influenced by their locus of control for affiliation, interpersonal uses for communication, and relational satisfaction. The subjects, 54 returned sojourners (i.e., students who had studied abroad), filled out a questionnaire to measure reentry shock…

This report studied the predictive validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for older students (early twenties to late fifties) at three universities and students' reactions to the admissions process. Analysis supports the use of SATs with local prediction equations. Interviews with older students suggest that their range of circumstances…

This pamphlet provides information on what higher education institutions can do to accomodate women over 25 who have interrupted their education for several years and are now entering or re-entering postsecondary institutions. Topics discussed include institutional attitudes, double discrimination, institutional invisibility, and barriers to…

The two purposes of this study were to: (1) determine whether there had been an increase in the enrollment of returning women students (twenty-five years of age or older) between the fall of 1975 and the fall of 1976 at the Quad-Cities Campus, Black Hawk College. A second problem was to compare the mean grade point average achieved by these…

To elicit facts on areas of family responsibility, how decisions are made, and how the division of labor is managed in the home, 87 middle to upper-middle class married women students at the University of Maryland at College Park were queried via a written questionnaire. Respondents indicated that there had been a change in all areas of decision…

Contemporary changes in the social roles of women are associated with the fact that women beyond the traditional student age are returning to college in increasing numbers. Older women students form a large minority group on many campuses today. A review of the literature suggests that these women students may experience special problems in…