Washington University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS) provides targeted continuing-education and credentialing opportunities for alumni, adults lacking postsecondary education, and the local workforce. CAPS offers certificate programs, undergraduate and graduate degrees, prison education initiatives, and lifelong learning courses for retirees. The school frames adult learners as "modern learners" whose education competes with other responsibilities and reframes noncredit offerings as "professional credit." CAPS aims to expand access to Washington University through flexible, supportive programming and terminology that validates adult learners' priorities and delivers career-relevant credentials.
Continuing-education programs are one way for colleges and universities to provide targeted offerings and credentialing opportunities for alumni, adults in the region lacking postsecondary education and the local workforce. They also provide flexible support offerings, recognizing the competing identities and responsibilities adult learners hold. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Washington University in St. Louis houses certificate programs, undergraduate and graduate degrees, prison education initiatives, and lifelong learning courses for adults in retirement.
Let me start with definitions. First, Washington University in St. Louis, we'll call WashU. Continuing and Professional Studies, we'll call CAPS. Nontraditional or adult learners, we call modern learners here-those for whom school is not their only priority. And then noncredit, we call professional credit because we don't like "nons." I think calling anything a "non" is just a negative, and it seems to say it doesn't matter. So those are the terms that we use.
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