The image of a ‘traditional’ college student—a fresh-faced teenager living on campus—may be changing.
Increasingly, schools are reaching out to ‘non-traditional’ students. They tend to be older, live off-campus, and may have other responsibilities like full-time jobs or children. More than 15 percent of students enrolled in The University System of Georgia this fall are non-traditional students.
Meeting the Goal
Some states, like Georgia, are turning their attention to non-traditional students because they’ve set some lofty goals for college completion. Complete College Georgia is a plan outlined by the state that aims to ensure 60 percent of the state’s adults will have some kind of post-secondary degree by the year 2025. Right now, about 42 percent of adults in the state meet that criterion.
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