Your Life Matters at TWU

Students in the September leadership cohort range in age from 23-59. Their backgrounds vary from bank management, sales and computer industry, business start-ups, single parenthood, and nonprofit management, to name a few.

What do they have in common, and why did they all choose TWU's accelerated Adult Degree Leadership program? There are many factors. Many work during the day, so they need classes to be at night. Furthermore, classes are just one night a week. Students get to know and support each other in class. They don't have to worry about taking five years of night classes. If they have about 30 credits when they start, they can get done in two years.

Many of these students haven't been in a classroom for a while, but have learned much from their work experiences. And now they can have the opportunity to get college credit through Prior Learning Assessment, a program in which their learning outside of a traditional college classroom can be evaluated and credit authenticated for relevant learning.

What is more, instructors make the most of their students' work experiences and that enhances and alters how they approach the classroom. Course assignments apply to real-world experiences so that working students can use what they learn in the classroom at the office the next day. Since adults don't have time for a registration rigmarole, they get the benefit of having the Extension staff handle the details of registration for them. Once registered for the program, the student stays registered as long as he or she remains in the program.