Colleges Eye Adults Who Didn’t Finish Degrees as Enrollments Fall

With a decline in college enrollment nationwide, higher education institutions are increasingly targeting another demographic—the tens of millions of adults who didn’t complete their college studies. Higher education leaders say incentives are in place across the country to get these past students back in the classroom—whether full-time or part-time, online or in person—as the 2024-2025 academic year gets underway. “There are 40 million adults out there who started college and didn’t finish,” Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University president, said. “That has to be the next place where higher education turns its attention because I think there’s a lot of people who are just itching to change their job or to move ahead in the workplace, and higher ed can be a solution to that,” she said....