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How Older Students Navigate Age-Based Isolation in College

I am sixty-two and went back to school after my divorce and my classmates are younger than my children and I feel invisible and irrelevant most days.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Re-entering educational environments at different life stages can trigger profound questions about belonging and the relationship between age and learning.

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