Integrating Adult Workers Into the College System. Nearly 34 million have no college experience at all

“In the United States, postsecondary education has long driven individual social mobility and collective economic prosperity. Nonetheless, the nation’s labor force includes 54 million adults who lack a college degree; of those, nearly 34 million have no college experience at all,” according to the Lumina Foundation.

The Lumina report, Return to Learning: Adults’ Success in College is Key to America’s Future, discusses the changes needed to successfully integrate adult learners in the postsecondary system.

Using the findings from 80 interviews and 1400 survey responses of post-secondary students and administrators, the report advocates for creating credentialing pathways using career-related courses and increasing financial aid options for adult students. For more information visit: http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/ReturntolearningApril2007.pdf

(Many thanks to Souther Compass for passing this along. Russ)