The State of Kentucky is instituting a program to get people who have completed some college credit to come back to school and finish their degrees. The program, Project Graduate, is offering incentives such as improved registration/advising processes, some financial aid, professional development for faculty who teach adults and gearing course schedules to accomodate working adults. This sort of program has been instituted in Ohio and New Mexico and has been met with success. Who woulda thunk it? I wonder, though, what could have been done to keep these all-but-degree students in school in the first place. Now states are spending bundles trying to get the people back that they likely should have kept an eye on.  But, some of these programs do focus on what community colleges do very well like nursing education, job skills training and, of course, teaching adults so I’m all for it. Here’s to waking up and smelling the coffee about the importance of people over 35 earning college degrees!