One of the main critical challenges that undergraduate science and mathematics faculty will be facing in the early years of the 21 st century is educating an ever-changing student population. More and more people are reentering college to pursue a second or even third career. This population of people is very diverse and is demanding changes from the traditional college delivery system.
Many times women choose to leave their careers and education to raise a family.
Then they find returning to a career and higher education very difficult. I believe I am able to understand and encourage these reentry students to work in the science field since I can relate to the struggles they have in working, raising a family and returning to higher education. As an educator, I believe we must continue to examine new and creative ways to educate students in and out of the science class. Course schedules must be continually examined to see if evening, weekend, block classes, cohort schedules and other options meet with the needs of the constituencies. We also need to examine modern delivery systems such as electronic classes delivered over the Intemet.