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Advising Adult Students Requires Special Attention

Advising Adult Students Requires Special Attention Advising Adult Students Requires Special Attention Wllllam GIczkOWSW and Slster Anne Them Allen cademic advisors and adminiswrs questions. Is getting the degree worth the time I have to who have dealt mainly with traditional take away from my family? Can I afford it, given mort- students must recognize a different gage payments and medical bills? Will my performance kind of undergraduate when they at work suffer? Will I be able to adiust to a college envi- encounter the adult transfer student seeking advice. ronment? Am I too old? Mature students who return to full-time study after Academic advisors will find that though mature stu- raising a family or establishing themselves in a career dents share a number of concerns, each reentry has to may feel a certain defensiveness about their decision to be treated as a special case. Some students may have do so. They are painfully aware upon reentering a started four-year degree programs at one point in their degree program that they have not followed a traditional lives and dropped out before finishing. Others will have path in the expected sequence of life events. They find eamed an associate’s degree at a junior college. A third themselves http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Advising Adult Students Requires Special Attention

Giczkowski, William; Allen, Anne Therese
Adult Learning , Volume 5 (5): 2 – May 1, 1994
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© 1994 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
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1045-1595
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2162-4070
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10.1177/104515959400500509
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Advising Adult Students Requires Special Attention Wllllam GIczkOWSW and Slster Anne Them Allen cademic advisors and adminiswrs questions. Is getting the degree worth the time I have to who have dealt mainly with traditional take away from my family? Can I afford it, given mort- students must recognize a different gage payments and medical bills? Will my performance kind of undergraduate when they at work suffer? Will I be able to adiust to a college envi- encounter the adult transfer student seeking advice. ronment? Am I too old? Mature students who return to full-time study after Academic advisors will find that though mature stu- raising a family or establishing themselves in a career dents share a number of concerns, each reentry has to may feel a certain defensiveness about their decision to be treated as a special case. Some students may have do so. They are painfully aware upon reentering a started four-year degree programs at one point in their degree program that they have not followed a traditional lives and dropped out before finishing. Others will have path in the expected sequence of life events. They find eamed an associate’s degree at a junior college. A third themselves

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Published: May 1, 1994

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