Learning While Wearing Work Clothes:
Scheduling Difficulties and the Older Non-Traditional Student
by Steven Saus, Wright State University
Things that traditional students take for granted are nearly impossible for a growing number of college and university students. Both the makeup and needs of non-traditional students have changed over the last twenty years. Older students are driven by global economic forces to go to college - whether for the first time or simply for new skills in a new economy.These older students face different challenges than other types of non-traditional students. This paper examines their difficulties and needs relating to the very framework of higher education: the class schedule.
This paper was presented at the 2008 North Central Sociological Association meeting.
A presentation based on this material will be presented at the Eighth Annual Quest For Community Conference.
There are several ways to experience this work:
- My notes (which is to say, the text of the talk) from the Quest for Community conference is online here with inline slides where needed. This is the most updated version, with approximately an extra 20% additional and reworked material. This is the best choice for most people.
- The full paper is online (PDF). The tables and appendicies (included in the paper, but broken out for convenience) are here (PDF).
- You can view the slides and text of my talk at NCSA, and you can hear the talk here (16 minute long MP3).
- This letter to the editor of the Guardian, Wright State's newspaper, provides a very brief summary of the issue.
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