The need for a new Strategic Planning for Adult Learners Committee showcased the need for a better and more comprehensive approach facing the challenges among nontraditional students during last week’s...
Katelyn Black, Lifestyle Editor
• September 30, 2019
Going to college can be hard between living away from home and the nightly homework load. It’s a lot to get used to. But imagine going to college while having to balance a house and kids with full lives...
After profiling non-traditional students for an academic year, we have learned a few things and experienced a few surprises. For example, the differences between traditional and non-traditional students...
“If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.”
This is the email signature of Kayla De Priest, a 28-year-old...
“If things were different in the past I wouldn’t be where I am today, and I like where I am today.”
These are the words of Kurtis Reilly, a man who has served his country before making the decision...
I found it quite ironic that I received a small taste of what non-traditional life is really like just a few days before Non-traditional Student Recognition Week, which runs from Nov. 7 to Nov. 13. Let me tell you, it was much more difficult than I imagined.
Last week, I was asked by my aunt and uncle to watch their three children from Monday to Thursday while they went on vacation. Their family lives in Milton, so I thought to myself, “How hard could it be?” So I agreed to watch my cousins for a week.
Non-traditional student, Kimberly “Kim” Bauer-Hillison, is single and without children, but is still considered different from the 800 other non-traditional students at
UW-Whitewater. At the age...
James “Jim” Hermanson was one of 1,200 workers laid off in 2009 at the General Motors Co. plant in Janesville, Wis., as an absentee replacement worker. It was a “devastating blow” Jim said, who had been employed by the company for 15 years.
