Everything Adults Need to Know About Going to College

Posted by on October 10, 2010

On Monday, October 18th, Graduate! and PhillyGoes2College will sponsor a workshop For Adults Only-Everything Adults Need to Know About Going to College from 6-8pm at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, in the Skyline Room on the 4th Floor.

In other related news, Lumina Foundation for Education has announced a significant new commitment to advancing adult degree attainment through a series of interconnected projects that aim to engage, motivate and help students who previously have gone to college actually earn their degrees.

With 37 million US adults ages 25–64—more than 20% of the working age population—having attended a college but never earned a degree or credential, the effort seeks to provide a second chance for these adults could be a big boost to the nation’s goal to dramatically increase college degree attainment and advance the nation’s workforce productivity.

Lumina’s commitment includes support for 19 large-scale projects that will provide leverage to efforts to educate and retrain workers who need up-skilling in order to compete for the jobs that will be created in the next decade, the majority of which will require some form of postsecondary education degree or credential.

Among the grants, totaling $14.8 million over four years, is $800,000 to support Graduate! Philadelphia, a joint project of United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board.

The grant will support replication of the Graduate! model , which mobilizes leadership and regional resources to increase the number and proportion of adults with quality college degrees by strengthening current Philadelphia and Connecticut models and replicating them in at least three more regions, including Chicago and Des Moines, Iowa.

According to Lumina’s recent report, A Stronger Nation through Higher Education, “The U.S. risks an unprecedented shortage of college-educated workers in coming years. The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems estimates the need to educate nearly 300,000 more college graduates each year from now through 2025 to meet the growing needs of the workforce.”

http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_stronger_nation.pdf