Even if educators frequently use the term “nontraditional students,” the term makes little sense at a growing number of colleges and universities. That’s because the term assumes a dominant population of “traditional” students – 18-22 year-olds who enroll shortly after graduating from a high school that has prepared them well for college. And at many campuses, the unusual students would be those who are thought of as traditional. Further, many campuses that have relied on a traditional population realize that they can no longer find enough such students – so institutional sustainability depends on serving broader cohorts of students. But it’s one thing for a college to say that it wants a broad cross-section of students, and another for a college to actually recruit, retain and graduate these students.
In this free webinar Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, editors of Inside Higher Ed, discuss the issues related to the way colleges recruit and retain non-traditional students in higher education.
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