%0 Thesis %1 sallis_developing_1993 %A Sallis, Harrylyn Graves %C Oxford, MS %D 1993 %K ADMINISTRATION, ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION, Higher, %T Developing an adult degree program at a small private southern liberal arts college through a dissemination project of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education %X The Adult Degree Program at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, was the first of its kind to be established in the State of Mississippi at an institution of higher learning, public or private. The influx of undergraduate degree seeking students over the age of twenty-three had impacted many colleges and universities in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, colleges had begun to take more serious notice of these students on every level of academic and student life. It was increasingly apparent that their presence on college campuses was no shortlived "fad." The United States had become a nation of "lifelong learners" and "lifelong learning." Higher education could no more return to the days of undergraduates who were exclusively 18-22 year old coeds than the nation could return to the days of racial segregation. The Adult Degree Program at Millsaps College is twelve years old. It was put into operation in a year's time which, taking into account the nontraditional features of such a program, seems remarkable. The process was facilitated by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement for Postsecondary Education. Administered and directed by Dudley Luck, Founding Director of the Adult Degree Program at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, five similar colleges shared this grant. None had much more than evening classes in place to meet the needs of adult learners. All were serious about providing more significant support and services to this new and very desirable cohort of students. This study is concerned with the process-and-outcome aspects of designing and delivering such a program. The history of the first ten years of Mississippi's first Adult Degree Program provides a model, a blueprint for other institutions of higher learning so that they do not have to "reinvent the wheel" to develop appropriate programs on their own campuses for their nontraditional students.

@phdthesis{sallis_developing_1993, abstract = {The Adult Degree Program at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, was the first of its kind to be established in the State of Mississippi at an institution of higher learning, public or private. The influx of undergraduate degree seeking students over the age of twenty-three had impacted many colleges and universities in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, colleges had begun to take more serious notice of these students on every level of academic and student life. It was increasingly apparent that their presence on college campuses was no shortlived "fad." The United States had become a nation of "lifelong learners" and "lifelong learning." Higher education could no more return to the days of undergraduates who were exclusively 18-22 year old coeds than the nation could return to the days of racial segregation. The Adult Degree Program at Millsaps College is twelve years old. It was put into operation in a year's time which, taking into account the nontraditional features of such a program, seems remarkable. The process was facilitated by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement for Postsecondary Education. Administered and directed by Dudley Luck, Founding Director of the Adult Degree Program at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, five similar colleges shared this grant. None had much more than evening classes in place to meet the needs of adult learners. All were serious about providing more significant support and services to this new and very desirable cohort of students. This study is concerned with the process-and-outcome aspects of designing and delivering such a program. The history of the first ten years of Mississippi's first Adult Degree Program provides a model, a blueprint for other institutions of higher learning so that they do not have to "reinvent the wheel" to develop appropriate programs on their own campuses for their nontraditional students.}, added-at = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, address = {Oxford, MS}, author = {Sallis, Harrylyn Graves}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/233f6d18bec3e770caa2fe2c90aa3161f/prophe}, interhash = {e762030c6c7e3ddbfca5346fe85d08df}, intrahash = {33f6d18bec3e770caa2fe2c90aa3161f}, keywords = {ADMINISTRATION, ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION, Higher,}, school = {The University of Mississippi}, shorttitle = {Developing an adult degree program at a small private southern liberal arts college through a dissemination project of the {Fund} for the {Improvement} of {Postsecondary} {Education}}, timestamp = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, title = {Developing an adult degree program at a small private southern liberal arts college through a dissemination project of the {Fund} for the {Improvement} of {Postsecondary} {Education}}, type = {{PhD} {Thesis}}, year = 1993 }