Presents six articles for working with women in career counseling. Focuses on scope/dimensions of sex bias, job market and alternative employment forms, displaced homemakers' needs, and strategies to help women enter/reenter work, e.g., career planning conferences, group vocational counseling, and use of the Motivation Analysis Test. Special Issue…

Concerns types of communication strategies people choose when confronted with situations which have no model. Found that subjects (women returning to college) did not attempt to fit into the established student role. Instead, they invented various strategies and reported the "active friendly" strategy as most positively related to communication…

Describes a study of the degree of flexibility attached to adult student entry into British universities. It explores how universities deal with mature students, what the position is of the unqualified "deviants" among them, and how the system of welcome and induction is changing. (CT)

A study of student retention at the University of Missouri--St. Louis focused on the behavior of stopouts. Retention of first-time freshmen was higher than that of transfers, but the cumulative percentage of graduates of transfers by the fourth year was double that of first-time freshmen. Males showed higher retention rates, as did Whites over…

The author looks at the personal and institutional barriers to college reentry by mature women and describes a peer-group conference approach in which reentry college women and professionals contact and counsel other women in the community who might be considering such a life change. (SJL)

Evaluates and discusses a program to help women returning to school make an adjustment to the college environment. Components of the program are values clarification, decision making, and assertion training. Suggestions are offered for the design and implementation of additional programs. (Author)

Allegorizes higher education as a superhighway, urging the redesign of the structure of higher education to meet the challenge of student diversity in the classroom. Examines trends in providing educational alternatives and suggests offering a program of services that will permit students to take responsibility for their lifelong learning. (JM)

Examined motivators, obstacles, and support systems of reentry college women, particularly African American women. Student surveys indicated that respondents were motivated and excited about college reentry, generally reporting increased self-confidence since returning to school but identifying role overload and role conflict as major obstacles.…

Addresses issues involved in increased numbers of mature women students in higher education: (1) reasons for past low participation; (2) models of good practice, such as Access courses and the Open University; and (3) institutional and instructional concerns such as course design and content, teaching and learning strategies, funding, hours,…

Describes the Women's Center at California State University/Dominguez Hills and its emphasis on multi-ethnic programming. Discusses the center's focus on the social, psychological, and academic needs of minority women, especially those who are returning to college after an interruption of their formal education. (NB)

Although traditional age college students have been the focus of HIV/AIDS education programs, considerably less attention has been given to reentry college students. The results of this study indicated reentry students have a good understanding of how HIV is transmitted but less knowledge regarding populations that are at risk. (BF)

Study indicates first-year reentry female college students perceive affectional aspects of their classroom experiences much more negatively than other first-year students. A major shift in those negative attitudes occurs between the first and second years. As seniors, reentry women report the most positive perceptions of all student groups.…

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 1979 through 1991 are used to demonstrate that acquisition of the General Educational Development (GED) credential is associated with an increase in the rate of wage growth for male high school dropouts. (SLD)

The Transitional School System is proposed as a network of neighborhood-based and controlled schools that would help welfare recipients by offering academic and professional training, crisis intervention, and family counseling. (SK)

A nurse returning to get a master's degree after 18 years offers advice to reentry students: buy a computer, become familiar with modern library search methods, master the Internet, and network with other returning students. (SK)