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Adult Education

  1. An Education in Risk Management Can Offer a Leg Up - Some educational credentials can help displaced professionals set themselves apart and stay competitive as firms’ needs evolve, especially with a growing focus on risk.
  2. Sustainability Field Booms on Campus - Universities and community colleges are responding to a demand from the public for degrees or ad hoc courses on sustainability.
  3. Adding Layers of Skills to a Science Background - Many continuing education students are trying to broaden their appeal by adding business and communications skills, or bringing their expertise to new fields.
  4. Jill Biden Says Community Colleges Are a Key U.S. Export - As she wrapped up a visit to Europe on Tuesday, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said that the higher-education could become a tool to help economic recovery in the United States.
  5. Growing Old With Autism - Even with state-of-the-art early intervention, many people with autism need support throughout their lives. But the grim reality is that there is a scarcity of resources.
  6. Applications Surge for Courses at CUNY’s 2-Year Colleges - In September and October, CUNY colleges received 15 percent more applicants than all of last year.
  7. All Rise! A Centenarian Will Analyze the Supreme Court - She is 100 years old, she got her first lesson in public speaking from Gov. Alfred E. Smith in 1928, and she now teaches a class on Tuesdays about the United States Supreme Court.
  8. A Life Dedicated to Helping Others Learn - White Plains.
  9. A Push for Adults Who Return to School - Falls Village, Conn.
  10. The Weeklong Semester - Colleges tweak the standard formats course length, class schedules, where they meet to marry convenience and speed for the adult student population.
  11. Ample Time, Finally, to Read Tolstoy - How many of us pledge that one day maybe after we retire we will finally get through Tolstoy’s “War and Peace?”
  12. When Cooks’ Dreams Outgrow Their Ovens - Incubators, or community kitchens for entrepreneurs, have been sprouting across the country.
  13. Word by Word, the World Becomes a Little Less Mystifying for Illiterate Adults - The experiences of a pair of New Yorkers illustrate the frustrations of adult illiteracy and also the relief that properly run adult education programs can bring.
  14. Community Colleges Want You - Baby boomers are expected to flood community colleges for the credentials and training they will need to reposition themselves for second careers.
  15. That Back-to-School Feeling - Years after graduation, there's still an annual longing for a clean slate.