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Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
recruiting and retaining adult learners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-6458
pISSN - 2155-644X
DOI - 10.1002/nsr.30412
Subject(s) - nobody , flexibility (engineering) , state (computer science) , community college , center (category theory) , path (computing) , work (physics) , political science , sociology , management , pedagogy , public relations , engineering , medical education , computer science , computer security , economics , medicine , mechanical engineering , chemistry , algorithm , programming language , crystallography
“Nobody's story is exactly the same, and we shouldn't expect it to be. But in higher education, we like to prepackage people, plop them into a certain path. It doesn't always work,” said Melissa Duff, executive director of the Student Success Center at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee. That problem is one of the great benefits of community college for adult learners, Duff said — there's often more flexibility in working around full lives than at other types of institutions.