Adult Student Services
For decades, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has researched what it takes for colleges and universities to succeed in educating adult students. The resulting deep understanding informs a range of adult student services including principles, assessment tools, partnerships, training and certification, and student advising—all of which are available to help you improve your offerings.
Ways to Improve Adult Student Services
Benchmark Your Adult Student Services
Use our Adult Learning Focused Institution (ALFI) Toolkits to survey your adult students and assess your institution—discovering and prioritizing specific strategies to serve your adult students better. Based on CAEL’s in-depth research on how to serve adult learners effectively, the survey tools, along with our principles for effectiveness, help you benchmark your results against other institutions and discover how best to allocate your resources for the greatest impact. The results can also serve as a baseline before launching new programs for adult students, enabling you to establish consistent measurements for the impact of your adult programs.
Advise Your Adult Students for Success
Because adults learn differently and face different challenges than younger students, the right student advising is critical to their staying in school and graduating. CAEL helps train and certify your advisors to work more effectively with adult students. Or, we can provide advising directly to your students through a nationwide network of advisors.