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Supporting Adult Transfer Students: Insights from the 16th Congress Pre-Conference Mini Course

This mini course at the 16th Congress focuses on serving adult transfer students, addressing the rise in adult degree completion as a national priority. It discusses the barriers these students face, including time, cost, and lack of infrastructure, while promoting new alternative learning methods. The curriculum emphasizes the importance of aggregation, assessment, and personalized advising to help match educational paths to individual student needs. Excelsior College serves as a case study in innovative approaches for supporting adult learners in achieving their academic goals.

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Supporting Adult Transfer Students: Insights from the 16th Congress Pre-Conference Mini Course

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  1. ABED16th Congress Pre-Conference Mini Course Serving the Adult Transfer Student

  2. Overview • Adult Degree Completion • Excelsior College • Aggregation • Assessment • Advising • Challenges

  3. Adult Degree Completion • National priority • Barriers • Need for new thinking • Alternative methods

  4. Obama Challange Lead the world in % of adults with Bachelors degree by 2025 (increase from current 40% to 60%)

  5. Impact of Failure • Inadequate workforce • Movement of jobs • Declining economy • Reduced standard of living

  6. Barriers • Time • Cost • Opportunity • Lack of infrastructure • Failure to see need

  7. New Thinking • Extended education • Night/weekend programs • Correspondence courses • Use of technology

  8. Alternatives • Online learning • New degree formats • Assessment of prior learning • Mass customization

  9. Excelsior College • Influence of OU • “Sister” of three others • Self-supporting

  10. History • Founded = 1971 by State of New York • Focus = Adult Learners • Philosophy = “What you know is more important than where or how learned” • Mission = Provide opportunity to those historically underserved by traditional higher education

  11. Profile • Private, non-profit • 30,00 students +/- • Largest nursing program in U.S. • Largest nuclear engineering in U.S. • 30% minority • 25-30% active military • Offer Associate, Bachelors, and Masters degrees

  12. Exercise #1 “The Needs of Brazil?”

  13. Methods • Aggregation • Assessment • Advising • Instruction

  14. Aggregation • Combining multiple forms of learning • Prior instruction • Military/corporate training • Exam results • Professional experience (portfolio)

  15. Assessment • Applicability of prior experience to specific degree requirements • Prior learning via examinations • Capstone

  16. Advising • Match degree to student needs and to background (from assessment) • Determine areas of further study • Provide knowledge of how to complete • Guide through completion process

  17. The Process Transcripts Aggregate Exams Military/CorpTraining Consolidated Transcript Compare to Degree Requirements A B C CHOOSE DEGREE PATH

  18. Assessment Degree Requirement Consolidated Transcript Path to Completion Credit By Exam External Institution Internal Course Work ADVISING Capstone Graduation

  19. Exercise #2 Value of Excelsior Model in Brazil?

  20. Challenges • Acceptance by traditional higher education • Awareness by prospective student • Perceived complexity • Too few “laboratories”

  21. Questions

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