As the population of traditional college students continues to dwindle due to numerous factors (demographics, politics, alternative learning opportunities, etc.), lifelong learning has become more than a slogan for tertiary-level institutions that struggle to maintain viable cohorts of learners for the range of disciplines they house. A Google Scholar search for “lifelong learning” produces almost a million results, pulled from such publications as the International Journal of Lifelong Education, the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, and Adult Education Quarterly.

Expertise, Credentials, and the Value of the University
It seems we can’t trust our own credentials or those that we provide to our students. Or perhaps it would be better to say that we have so much confidence


