When more adult students graduate from college, everyone wins. CAEL helps adult students earn college credit for learning from life experience, saving them time and money. And we help colleges improve their adult student services, improving their retention and graduation rates.

CAEL’s advising services help people discover not only what they want to do and will find rewarding, but also what will lead to a career with a future. We also help them navigate the dizzying array of educational choices.

It’s hard to plan your education when you don’t know where it leads. By uncovering career paths, in all their upward and sideways complexity, CAEL helps people see the route they want to follow.

CAEL knows that every institution and organization is unique, and sometimes the only way to address specific challenges is with our customized consultation services.

CAEL works to bring together the higher education, public, and private sectors, because it’s only by working together that they can smooth the path to learning for adults.

Old ideas work, but not for long. That’s why CAEL supports research and development to constantly discover and explore new ways to address the barriers to learning.

Changing public policy to break down barriers to learning is not only good for individuals, but also for region, states, and the nation. CAEL influences critical public policy areas to help make education more accessible.