Public Libraries: Your Partner in Increasing College Literacy among Nontraditional Prospective Students
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| author | Hands, Africa S. |
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| contents | Public Libraries: Your Partner in Increasing College Literacy among Nontraditional Prospective Students Hands, Africa S. Public Libraries College Admission College Bound Students College Readiness Multiple Literacies Knowledge Level Nontraditional Students Partnerships in Education Library Services Educational Attainment Educational Opportunities Adult Students Barriers Cooperation Information Dissemination The Netflix docudrama, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, illustrates how college admissions, particularly at elite colleges, favors the privileged. Higher educational attainment overall favors the informed. Prospective students have many options when it comes to earning a college degree, with some of the more visible options (e.g. for-profit institutions) to degree attainment resulting in time and money wasted for nontraditional students. Thus, higher education professionals must educate prospective students on their options--sometimes at nontraditional locations. The local public library is one such uncommon, yet ideal location for reaching adult prospective students. Written from the perspective of a former higher education admission and advising professional now library science faculty, this article proposes that the reopening of public libraries post-quarantine is an opportune moment for colleges and universities to create partnerships to recruit adult students. Following a discussion of degree attainment among nontraditional students, barriers experienced, and public library services for adults, I offer four practical suggestions for higher education practitioners to collaborate with public libraries to broaden nontraditional, adult prospective students' awareness of postsecondary opportunities. |
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| spellingShingle | Public Libraries: Your Partner in Increasing College Literacy among Nontraditional Prospective Students Hands, Africa S. Public Libraries College Admission College Bound Students College Readiness Multiple Literacies Knowledge Level Nontraditional Students Partnerships in Education Library Services Educational Attainment Educational Opportunities Adult Students Barriers Cooperation Information Dissemination Public Libraries: Your Partner in Increasing College Literacy among Nontraditional Prospective Students Hands, Africa S. Public Libraries College Admission College Bound Students College Readiness Multiple Literacies Knowledge Level Nontraditional Students Partnerships in Education Library Services Educational Attainment Educational Opportunities Adult Students Barriers Cooperation Information Dissemination The Netflix docudrama, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, illustrates how college admissions, particularly at elite colleges, favors the privileged. Higher educational attainment overall favors the informed. Prospective students have many options when it comes to earning a college degree, with some of the more visible options (e.g. for-profit institutions) to degree attainment resulting in time and money wasted for nontraditional students. Thus, higher education professionals must educate prospective students on their options--sometimes at nontraditional locations. The local public library is one such uncommon, yet ideal location for reaching adult prospective students. Written from the perspective of a former higher education admission and advising professional now library science faculty, this article proposes that the reopening of public libraries post-quarantine is an opportune moment for colleges and universities to create partnerships to recruit adult students. Following a discussion of degree attainment among nontraditional students, barriers experienced, and public library services for adults, I offer four practical suggestions for higher education practitioners to collaborate with public libraries to broaden nontraditional, adult prospective students' awareness of postsecondary opportunities. |
| title | Public Libraries: Your Partner in Increasing College Literacy among Nontraditional Prospective Students |
| topic | Public Libraries College Admission College Bound Students College Readiness Multiple Literacies Knowledge Level Nontraditional Students Partnerships in Education Library Services Educational Attainment Educational Opportunities Adult Students Barriers Cooperation Information Dissemination |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1361749 |