Senior Class
Going back to college as an older adult can be challenging and rewarding. Here are seven tips to help you make the grade.
- story by Ellis Anderson
- story by Ellis Anderson
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Since I’m 59 years old, most of my college classmates could technically be my grandchildren. Yet, apparently I’ve got lots of company. According the American Council on Education, adult learners now make up an astonishing 40 percent of people attending college nationwide.
Older adults enrolled in college are usually called “non-traditional” students and we attend for a variety of reasons. While most are seeking career advancement or new job skills, some are embracing continuing education as a way to stimulate their minds. Others are pursuing passions that jobs or parenthood pushed to the back burner. A few, like me, want the satisfaction of getting a degree they wanted to pursue earlier in life. |
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