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 envirions....Adult Students "At-Risk" pushes us to contemplate the water now before it kills off any more adult fish.-Contemporary Gerontology
Quinnan's strength is in weaving disparate pieces of critical theory and postmodernism into an understandable and effective whole....The book can and does provide insight, in addition to stimulating innovative thought, for a wide range of audience. This would be a good read for educators and administrators, but also has something to offer returning students, as well as graduate level research classes.-The Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development
With this excellent, readable book, Quinnan offers an important provocative statement about the adult student in higher education. The book is very well researched and has an excellent bibliography....Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty.-Choice
"Adult learning embraces the process of developing new knowledge, awareness, and skills across the span of life situations both beyond and within academic envirions....Adult Students "At-Risk" pushes us to contemplate the water now before it kills off any more adult fish."-Contemporary Gerontology
"With this excellent, readable book, Quinnan offers an important provocative statement about the adult student in higher education. The book is very well researched and has an excellent bibliography....Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-Choice
"Quinnan's strength is in weaving disparate pieces of critical theory and postmodernism into an understandable and effective whole....The book can and does provide insight, in addition to stimulating innovative thought, for a wide range of audience. This would be a good read for educators and administrators, but also has something to offer returning students, as well as graduate level research classes."-The Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development

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