ACTION PLAN - University of Ulster

Current Research/Information:
Clemson University gives students information on how to interact with their instructors
on their website. It includes 10 Things You Should Never Say or Do To Your Instructor.
In Virginia, to aid with Dropouts, college students served as Acampus mentors@ to these at
risk students.
What can we do?
To make campus activities a requirement and a way to make extra points in our FRYS
class. This way the students would have a way to get extra points and hopefully become
interested in an outside activity. They would also get extra points for becoming a
member of a campus club.
Adult Learners (AL):
What are we doing?
Developing an Adult Learner section of FRYS to meet the populations’ special needs.
Giving adult learners a sense of belonging on campus by planning a ULM Adult Learner
Service Center. Developing services that meet the needs of adult learners. Continuing to
have an Adult Learner task force to discuss and enhance ALs on this campus. Conducting
surveys. Holding AL focus group to get more insight into the population.
Current Research/Information:
Some colleges provide degrees that can be completely obtained during the evening.
Many colleges realize the importance of the adult learner community and have created an
Adult Learner Center like Middle Tennessee University. The Center has coffee and
snacks, parking permits, emergency contact services, admissions information, financial
aid information, schedules, drop/add forms, child care, evening child care, housing,
community resources and information on changing records on themselves. They have
also implemented an organization for the support and advocacy of ALs. They call
themselves the OWLS, Organization for Older, Wiser Learners.
Many programs have a nontraditional student week with programming that would appeal
to the AL. Others have a handbook for nontraditional students to help them navigate the
college system.
What can we do?
We are hoping to develop an Adult Learner center. This would be a place for AL=s to
congregate, learn, and share. We can continue to write grants to fund the center. We can
also prepare a worksheet with statistic to circulate to provide more information on this
population. Then, we can ask faculty/staff how to better serve our ALs. Our suggestion
would be to get a buy in from Enrollment Services and Student Affairs. By this we
mean, that they would recognize this population as a growing one and an important one
on campus. We can accomplish this by giving statistics of how many students we have
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