Ideas and stories that move higher education forward.
Learner voices. Practitioner insight. Research that informs what comes next.
Our publications explore what adults bring to education, what makes progress possible, and how institutions can build more responsive pathways to learning and completion.
Featured Publication
Beyond the Degree
Stories of Adult Learner Comebacks and What aTeach Us
By Matt Bergman & Bridgett Strickler
Fifty adult learners share their stories in their own words, revealing the work, family responsibilities, interrupted plans, and enduring intentions that shape a return to education. Through their experiences, Bergman and Strickler explore identity, belonging, persistence, and completion, and what colleges, employers, and communities can learn from these journeys.
What does it take to return to college when life has changed the plan?
Stories that support the comeback
50%
Fifty percent of proceeds from Beyond the Degree support adult learner scholarships through the Center for Academic Innovation.
More voices. More ways forward.
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The Learning Revolution
COMING SOON
Ending Knowledge Discrimination in America
What happens when the knowledge people gain through work and life goes unrecognized?
By Peter Smith
In The Learning Revolution, Peter Smith examines “knowledge discrimination,” the systematic devaluing of learning that happens outside colleges, and its consequences for opportunity, identity, and participation in American life.
Drawing on five decades of leadership in education and public service, Smith combines personal reflection, learner stories, and institutional examples to show how recognizing that knowledge can transform lives. He explores an emerging ecosystem of experiential learning, accessible degree pathways, and technology that supports belonging, reflection, and agency.
For educators, employers, and policymakers, the book offers a vision for expanding opportunity by recognizing what people already know. For adults whose abilities have been overlooked, it affirms that valuable learning happens throughout life, and deserves to count.
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