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IAS > My Day > Posts > KY Adult Learner Initiative - Report on UK's status

5/11/2009

KY Adult Learner Initiative - Report on UK's status
As part of the Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative launched by the KY Council on Postsecondary Education, the Provost assigned a task force to study the status of adult learners at the University of Kentucky and whether the University of Kentucky is an “adult friendly” campus.  Led by Randolph Hollingsworth and ably organized by Terri Runyon, the task force used the Adult Learning Focused Institution (ALFI) Toolkit from the Council on Adult & Experiential Education (www.cael.org/alfi/tools.html) to support the development of a report.  In addition, the task force gathered other data from: a telephone survey for those UK undergrads aged 25 and older who had left before graduating; discussion groups with selected students and faculty; and, a student support staff survey.
 
The task force presented (in no particular order of priority) the following recommendations to the Provost for improving recruitment and retention of adult learners as well as developing an institutional plan to submit to the CPE for additional funding.

 

·         Offer more evening/weekend, summer, independent student and distance learning content – both individual courses that faculty want to offer and those specifically targeted by departments to allow students to complete full programs in the sequence they need;

·         Improve the recruitment and enrollment process for adult students;

·         Create a leave of absence category for undergraduate students;

·         Assess regularly the effectiveness of adult student services and track enrollment/retention/graduation; and

·         Provide additional, centralized resources for the Project Graduate initiative.

 
Attached here is a copy of the report with the results of those findings and the fuller set of recommendations to the Provost.
Posted at 8:42 AM by Hollingsworth, Randolph | Category: May 2009 | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

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