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Options and Skills Necessary for Navigating a Successful Transition to Postsecondary Education
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Morningstar, Mary E.; Shoemaker, Andrew – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter describes several essential skills necessary for success in postsecondary education (PSE) for young adults with disabilities and provides a variety of models of support available to students with disabilities as they transition into PSE.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Higher Education, Skill Development, Models
Facilitating College Supports to Ensure Student Success
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Fowler, Catherine H.; Getzel, Elizabeth Evans; Lombardi, Allison – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter examines the changes in supports and services from secondary to postsecondary for students with disabilities. It recommends ways organizations, practitioners, and students must coordinate and collaborate to affect the environment and increase student success in postsecondary education.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Secondary School Students, Cooperation
"Doors Are Not Locked, Just Closed": Latino Perspectives on College
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Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse; Candales, Barbara A.; Ricardo-Rivera, Jose – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
As adult Latina/Latino students advanced from a community college to a four-year college, a transition course and mentoring program engaged students and educators in a reciprocal process of change. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Mentors, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Higher Education