Creating a Place for Adult Learners in Higher Education (PDF)

Amy D. Rose is Emeritus Professor of adult education at Northern Illinois University. She has writes about issues related to adult education history and policy. She was a co-editor of the Handbook of Adult Continuing Education: 2010 Edition and a co-author of Professional Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education (2017), which won the Cyril Houle award from the American Association for Adult Education (AAACE). She served as a co-editor of the Adult Education Quarterly and is presently a co-editor of Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy. In addition, she has served as a president of AAACE

Jovita M. Ross-Gordon is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Texas State University. She is the author/coauthor or editor/coeditor of several books including SuperVision and instructional leadership: A developmental approach (11th ed., in press, 2023) and Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education (2017). She has also published numerous chapters, articles, and proceedings on adult/higher education as well as on equity as related to race, gender, and (dis)ability. Her honors include Texas State University Graduate College Outstanding Mentor (2019); the Cyril O. Houle Award, Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, (2018); the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame (2015) and the Career Achievement Award of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (2013).