Adult Learners in Higher Education: Barriers to Success and Strategies to Improve Results

March 1, 2007

This reports notes that “traditional higher education programs and policies—created in an era when the 18- to 22-year-old, dependent, full-time student coming right out of high school was seen as the core market for higher education—are not well designed for the needs of adult learners, most of whom are ‘employees who study’ rather than ‘students who work.’”