To understand the needs and attitudes of nontraditional students, defined here as students who are age 25 and older, we analyzed results from our 2025 Student Survey. Among our findings: Nontraditional students use AI differently from their traditional-aged peers, don't use the career center as frequently, and have a deep sense of pride in their institution and feel connected and supported by their peers and faculty.

Disney provides resources to the College Fund to administer the latter’s scholarship program, called the Future Native Storytellers Program. Recently, a smaller group of program scholars was selected to receive additional enhancements to increase the awareness of opportunities at Disney for Native students.

Many community College students take a nontraditional path to higher education, which means career services staff need to ensure an individualized approach to supporting each student.

Winner of NACE’s 2024 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Excellence Award for colleges, the Georgia Tech Career Center’s Georgia Tech’s AuthenTECH Partnership initiative leverages staff to provide population-specific resources, expand programming, and cultivate partnerships to advance equitable career outcomes.

Winner of the 2024 Chevron Innovation Award, the Gregory S. Fehribach Center at Eskenazi Health empowers Indiana college students with physical disabilities to achieve equitable employment following graduation.