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A 3 page overview of a 2002 report issued by the U.S. Department of Education that assesses the presence of non-traditional students in institution of higher learning. The author contends that this type of information has been collected, analyzed, reanalyzed, digested, re-digested, and vomited up for years. What is needed is a common sense approach to devise methods to accommodate nontraditional students. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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Introduction Nontraditional students are a growing component of the undergraduate population. Students that attend college only part time, those that chose to
not enroll in college immediately after they graduated from high school, those that did not graduate from high school or that obtained a GED, those that have one or more
dependents other than their spouse, those that are single parents, and those that provide their own support working thirty-five or more hours per week or simply being financially independent in
terms of financial aid purposes, now in fact comprise the majority of the student population. The U.S. Department of Education (2004) estimates that only twenty-seven percent of undergraduates qualify
as traditional students, that seventy-three percent of undergraduates were "nontraditional in one respect or another. They contend that to better accommodate these students more information must be obtained about
the factors that qualify them as nontraditional. Discussion
The time has certainly arrived where the needs of nontraditional students must be taken into consideration by institutions of higher learning. In fact, that time has been here for
decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in 2002 the U.S. Department of Education speculates that the trend toward nontraditional enrollment began
in the 1970s (U.S. Department of Education, 2002b). Anyone that has ever attended school, however, as a so-called nontraditional student will attest that the task is difficult at best.
This difficulty revolves around a number of factors, factors that will be more thoroughly delineated below. Non-traditional students encounter numerous problems in
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