Adult Students At-Risk: Culture Bias in Higher Education

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Adults have been and remain marginalized in academic institutions because of the persistence of a deeply rooted culture bias. This work analyzes the current state of the adult student experience in higher education, exploring the organizational, instructional, and interpersonal barriers that adults face in reaching their educational goals. Using applied critical and postmodern theory, the author explores the hypothesis that adults are at-risk in higher education settings because of such bias. The book includes an extensive review and critique of the literature and of contemporary adult programs and practices. In addition, adult students' personal accounts of their academic experiences are presented. This study not only reveals the nature and scope of the obstacles faced by adult students, but begins to suggest tangible ways students and educators can work to overcome them.

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Adult learning embraces the process of developing new knowledge, awareness, and skills across the span of life situations both beyond and within academic enirons.Adult Students At-Risk pushes us to contemplate the water now before it kills off any more adult fish. * Contemporary Gerontology *

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TIMOTHY WILLIAM QUINNAN is Assistant Dean and Chief Student Affairs Officer at Raymond Walters College at the University of Cincinnati.