Content written by Jon Marcus and published by The Hechinger Report
MBA News Digest Comment: While this article focuses on older undergraduate students, the same issues confront older GME students.
Extracted Content: Students 25 and older juggle jobs, kids and bills without support many say they need.
Under gray skies, smiling 8- and 9-year-olds in shiny raincoats skip across the Portland State University campus. Infants and toddlers are napping in the student center.
These aren’t necessarily child prodigies. They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates.
Twenty-two percent of the 28,000 students at the university are parents — half of them raising kids alone. Sixty-eight percent work at least part time and 44 percent full time or more, 1,500 are military veterans, and almost two-thirds have transferred from somewhere else. The average age is 27.