America's Forgotten Student Population: Creating a Path to College Success for GED Completers

Constituting one in twelve of adult Americans, GED certificate holders comprise a major pool of underdeveloped human capital in our society. They are a resource that will be sorely needed as “boomers” reach retirement and the traditional pipeline of 17 – 23 year olds falls short of filling our growing workforce needs.

Although these nontraditional students can potentially meet our future workforce demands, and although half of them enter post-secondary education, half of those who do so dro...