The organization of this report will include a brief review of the HBCU Adult Learner Initiative grant and its components, followed by the best practices frequently discussed among faculty, staff, and students participating in the grant and recommendations. [...] Rather than create the goals and objectives of an investment based solely on the foundation’s strategy and content knowledge of the grant makers, participatory grantmaking is when a funder, in this case, the Lumina Foundation, seeks to listen to the institutions first. [...] Staff and administrators implemented various policies and programming to address the barriers to the persistence and retention of Black adult learners. [...] Their engagement in this process resulted in the institutions standardizing an adult learner definition and creating a category within their system to identify this population for easy analysis and to design and implement policies and initiatives inclusive of adult learners. [...] Administrators should establish a shared vision that prioritizes the needs of Black adult learners, which is manifested by institutions earmarking funding to meet this population’s needs, including this population in their institutional strategic planning, and requiring each department to review and change their current policies and initiatives to be more inclusive of the Black adult learner popul.
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