This article presents empirical research exploring adult students' transition to higher
education (HE) through a program designed to enable that transition. Wenger's …

A literature review summarizes research on the demography, development, and persistence
of nontraditional adult students in higher education. Educational strategies are …

H igher education for adults at the beginning of the twenty-first century is both ripe with
promise and riddled with contradictions. The recent fundamental shifts in economic systems …

Adult student enrollment in higher education is approaching 50%, yet most college and
university practices have been designed for younger, traditional age students. This study …

The fastest growing segment of the college population in the United States is made up of
adult students. Adults are entering colleges for the first time or reentering, after a long …

This chapter will explore tensions between the different identities, and trajectories of
identification, that constitute the participation of academics in communities of practice within …

The aim of this article is to orient those interested in adult community college student
research to a wide array of discourses and theoretical tools that can help us understand the …

Despite the fact that educational institutions have been actively encouraging mature
students into higher education, we understand little of whether the experience of this group …

While much is known about the role of student involvement in various dimensions of student
change and development, considerably less is known about how students become involved …

This article is an empirical phenomenological examination of the perceived security that first
generation college students have in their identity as college students. First generation …