Expands on two literature reviews concerning reentry women. Describes programs established to assist reentry women as they pursue a postsecondary education. Discusses the counseling process as it relates to reentry women. Offers recommendations for further research. (Author)

An estimated 40 million adults in "career transition," it is suggested, may make the difference between institutional retrenchment or closure on one hand, and survival or even expansion on the other hand. An adult education "weekend college" at Marymount College is described. (MLW)

Black women and White reentry students completed a questionnaire that assessed educational goals, career goals, sex-role attitudes, and demographic traits. The results indicate that religious upbringing, mothers' educational attainment, and birth order significantly predict students' sex-role related goals and attitudes. (Author)

Focuses on the following aspects of the WENDI (Women's Education Development Incentive) program at Brevard Community College (Florida): its history, objectives, service population, emphasis on introducing careers in nontraditional fields, and specific aspects of the delivery system. Relates the program to various studies of women's programing.…

A study of 187 students reinstated to the College of Education at Iowa State University from 1981 to 1987 showed that a student's previous academic deficit in college and classification (grade level) are characteristics significantly related to success on reentry. Suggestions for enhancing persistence and success are offered. (Author/MSE)

Open Access courses in Great Britain are a means of increasing adult student enrollment in science, engineering, and technology. However, these mature students are not performing as well in the physical and natural sciences as in the social sciences and humanities, raising questions about the curriculum, teaching methods, and assessment used with…

Aspects of the trend toward registered nurses returning for a bachelor's degree are discussed, including the changing nursing manpower pool, entry-level preparation requirements, attitudes about technical education, and the need for carefully articulated and educationally sound programs for all routes of entry into practice. (MSE)

How students' cultural backgrounds and the variation of these backgrounds in different educational units affect the phenomenon of dropout and change of career plans was studied with 39,831 Finnish college students from 1985-90. Students' tendency to drop out is connected to some degree to sociocultural background. (SLD)

Recounts a young teacher's awakening to the problems and conflicts in community college education, explores issues particularly related to adult students, and provides case studies that exemplify the goals, problems, and needs of reentry, first-generation students. Offers guidance on working with adult students. (DMM)

Draws on the perspectives of 11 older women preparing to become teachers in the United Kingdom to illustrate the dilemmas faced by mature teacher trainees. Mature women frequently become isolated and marginalized in college and face discrimination when looking for jobs. (SLD)

Examines the educational narratives of eight reentry black women in higher education to determine what common experiences shaped their academic lives. Results include the indication that participants entered higher education to better their lives and possibly the lives of their children, regardless of past school failures and lack of family…

Utilizing data from the national administration of a Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) baseline and follow-up survey of the first-year experience during the 2002-2003 academic year, this study explores the relationship between three curricular interventions--first-year seminars, service-learning, and learning communities--and the…

In this column, Linton discusses First Lady Laura Bush's remarks on the special issues faced by boys in contemporary America. Among other things, Linton talks about the Neglected and Delinquent Technical Assistance Center's Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports approach addressing behavioral issues that block school performance and…

Colleges are still designed for 18 to 22 year old students, even though that category includes only about 20% of the total population seeking degrees. Because of this fact, the term "andragogy," or how to teach adults, should become a more recognizable concept in education. A study was conducted in which 25 first-year adult women at…

Returning adult students enrolled in graduate programs at the University of Wisconsin's School of Education and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were studied. The sample of 25 male and 48 female students were 25 years of age and older, U.S. citizens, and had been out of school for 3 years. Students completed a biographical assessment,…