There’s more than one reason why Priscilla Santiago of Bridgeport, Conn., never thought she’d go to college. For one thing, she dropped out of high school at 16, after a personal trauma. She began working as a forklift driver for…
Last week we posted a testimonial from Mike Simaitis, Continuous Improvement Leader at BD. He had briefly written about how, after building his career and raising a family, he was able to accomplish a goal he always had his eyes…
Bryan Lewis isn’t stopping his academic journey anytime soon. As an adult learner, he started taking classes at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Conn., in 1998. Today he is a third-year doctoral student at Northeastern University. How Bryan got here, he says, has a…
Sloan Consortium (also called Sloan-C for short) is one of the leading organizations studying the trends in online learning, and how higher education institutions are effectively creating quality online learning environments for their adult learners. It has the inside track…
Saida Luciano-Ross is a 49-year-old, full-time working professional. Like many of our working adult students, Saida has three children, two of whom are in college. Going back to school herself is probably one of the last things you’d think she’d…
As dean of Post University’s School of Education, May 7 was as exciting a day for me as it was for 400 of Post University’s 2011 graduates who walked on stage, got their diplomas, switched their tassels, and formally graduated.…
