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'I Need A Degree In Order To Move Forward': Why Some Adults Choose College

Elissa Nadworny , Kate McGee, Martha Dalton, Mallory Noe-Payne, Camille Phillips, Dusty Rhodes, Taylar Dawn Stagner

About 7.6 million adults 25 and over attended college in 2018. Among them are a mother of four, a Navy vet and a grandmother finishing what she started more than four decades ago.