Promising outcomes for Tennessee grownup faculty advising mannequin

Navigate Reconnect, Tennessee’s faculty advising program for adults age 25 and older,has been profitable in serving to grownup learners get to and thru faculty, in keeping with a brand new report shared by the Tennessee Larger Schooling Fee on Thursday.

Between 33 and 43 % of scholars who labored with Navigate Reconnect coaches enrolled in faculty inside a yr, and 38 to 50 % enrolled inside two years, in keeping with the research, produced in partnership with the Tennessee Division of Finance and Administration and researchers on the College of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Most of these college students, 87 %, enrolled at group schools, and between 75 and 80 % labored whereas in faculty. About two-thirds have been ladies, and greater than half have been the primary of their households to go to varsity. The scholars additionally usually had family incomes decrease than the state common and have been extra more likely to be nonwhite in comparison with the state inhabitants.

The report additionally discovered that college students who labored with Navigate Reconnect coaches, known as Reconnect Navigators, stayed enrolled or earned technical certificates and levels at a charge 11 share factors greater than college students who didn’t work with coaches.

“I witness each day how our Reconnect Navigators are looking for grownup faculty college students: serving to them discover options, providing data and steerage, and offering encouragement and help,” Jessica Gibson, THEC senior director of grownup learner initiatives, mentioned in a press launch. “We personally know their tales, their struggles, and their successes. We all know how impactful our Navigators are with grownup college students’ trajectories and this report backs that up.”