Life Made Easier for the Over‐Thirty Undergrads

Advising for special populations

“…They tend to spend comparatively little time on campus other than to attendclasses, and they rarely attendor participate in extracurricular activities; they feel out of place, lack selfconfidence, have poor study skills, and avoid seeking assistance from available campus agencies. O n the positive side, older students often have very specific educational goals, are highly motivated to achieve (although sometimes unrealistically), and bring a broad range of prior life experiences as a framework from which to relate their new learning activities (Kuh and Sturgis, 1980;Rawlins, 1979).…”

“Study skills help for the adult woman reentering college”

“…Recent articles focusing on the needs of adult women students emphasize the importance of early help with time management and study skills problems (Astin, 1976;Brooks, 1976;Rawlins, 1979;Roach, 1976). In one particular study of 392 community college women students, the women questioned ranked time management as number one and study skill concerns as number three from a scaled list of 21 possible concerns (Smallwood, 1980).…”