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certification, continuing and contract education programs offered in community, state, federal, and privately-owned colleges, universities, and learning centers. On-line and home-based opportunities as well as flexibility in course-scheduling, such as evenings, weekends, and consecutively-scheduled classes are evolving rapidly in most learning institutes to provide more feasibility, opportunity, and convenience for the non-traditional student. Whether the adult is seeking to obtain their GED and some basic training skills, or intends to seek higher education, the Adult Learning Center, available locally or in most learning institutes, offers literacy and basic skills training, GED preparation, useful skills needed in today's world, and practice college tests. They may also provide job readiness and career-awareness, certification programs for certain trades, and many useful links and resources.

Affordability of college for the traditional student is made possible by scholarships, financial aid, student loans, grants, and work-study programs. The development in adult-learning education now allows these same financial opportunities. Many employers are now offering tuition-remission and reimbursement as part of their benefits package. Accelerated-learning and the transfer of cheaper college-credits as well as life-experience credits can save on tuition. Less-advertised are the options of loan-repayment assistant programs, loan forgiveness programs, or working public service jobs for less pay to compensate tuition. Finally, there are tuition-free colleges, few and far between, that typically specialize in a particular program of study.

3. Traditional and Non-Traditional Students in Traditional Settings, and the Evolution of Non-Traditional Settings Specific to Adult-Learning Styles, Disabilities, and Limitations.

The curriculum, teaching methods and styles, and general composition of traditional college settings for the traditional student are based around preparing and developing this student for the big world while training them in general liberal studies that cover broad ranges of learning. This allows the student to explore their opportunities and eventually settle for programs of study that might interest them. For many, it is their first time living outside the home. It is important for them to learn life skills, so the focal-point of their education is the eventual application of their learning when they enter life.

The adult learner, on the other hand, already

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