We All Have a Lot to Learn from Nontraditional Learners
September 23, 2019
By: Marie Cini
Source: Education Dive
About three in four undergraduate college students are what policy experts refer to as “nontraditional” learners. These are students who attend college later in life, go to school part-time, work full-time while enrolled or are raising children while earning a degree.
But from the perspective of university leaders and policymakers, these students are all too often thought of as “others,” as a group of learners existing outside the norm. Of course, the reality is that nontraditional learners are everywhere.
Your Lyft driver, your restaurant server, your coworker in the next cubicle over: They may all be working toward a degree, certificate or another type of credential. And we have a lot to learn from them.