2. Agenda – Virtual Session #1
Introductions (10 min)
Making Mature Students a Priority (30 min)
Buy-in
Services
Marketing
Resources to Make Your Job Easier (30 min)
Share your best tools. No secrets allowed!
Your Best Ideas from Today (15 min)
Confirm next COP topics (5 min)
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4. Working Adults without a Degree
Those age 18-64 are in three major groups:
Adults who have dropped out of high school and
have no college education - about 26.4 million
adults.
Adults who have a high school diploma but have
no college education - about 56 million adults.
Adults who have a high school diploma who have
some postsecondary education but no degree -
about 42.5 million adults.
5. Adult Learning Satisfaction-
Community Colleges
Scale Performance Satisfaction Performance Gap
Mean Mean Mean
Outreach 6.52 5.61 .91
Financing 6.42 5.40 1.02
Life and Career 6.41 5.19 1.22
Planning
Teaching-Learning 6.34 5.71 .63
Process
Transitions 6.32 5.35 .97
Technology 6.33 5.70 .63
Student Support 6.25 5.38 .87
Systems
Assessment of 6.14 5.42 .72
Learning Outcomes
•(7 = very important /very satisfied 1 = not important/not satisfied at all)
•Source: Noel-Levitz/CAEL 2011 National Adult Learners Satisfaction-Priorities Report
6. Making Mature Students a Priority
How are mature students viewed at your college?
Are you a chorus of one?
Is there a plan to serve this population?
Do you offer PLA? What methods?
What are you doing to make them feel welcome?
What programs are in place for orientation and areas
of special need (e.g. technology)?
How are you using mature students to benefit the
college?
Marketing
Where are you casting the net for mature students?
With whom are you partnering in the community?
Is the mature student represented in your materials?
Have you checked/suggested changes since the
6 meeting?
7. Making Your Job Easier
What is the best resource/tool
you’ve identified in the past year?
What is the one assessment
you won’t do without?
If you could add one more tool
to your toolkit, what would it be?
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9. Materials & Next Session
Advising Avenue
Tools to share with students
How keyed in is your faculty?
LinkedIn – “CAEL Career Pathways
and Counselor Initiative”
Post and check
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Editor's Notes
Overall, four-year schools do a better job of meeting student expectations.
Assessments:Skills and InterestValuesWork styleLearning style