For generations, colleges were largely designed around the idea of an 18-year-old who enrolled straight out of high school, attended full-time and followed a relatively linear path to graduation. But today’s students increasingly look different, forcing institutions to rethink long-held assumptions about whom college is designed to serve.
Sara Weissman, senior reporter at Inside Higher Ed, joined student success reporter Joshua Bay on Voices of Student Success to discuss how higher education demographics have changed, why the traditional student model no longer reflects the reality on many campuses and what institutions must do to better serve today’s learners.
This episode kicks off a six-part series exploring the experiences of nontraditional students, including adult learners, working students, transfer students, student parents and first-generation students, whose educational pathways fall outside the traditional college model.
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