My Bio

Mary Beth Lakin is the associate director for special projects in the American Council on Education’s Center for Lifelong Learning and is currently the project director for a two-year study, Reinvesting in the Third Age: Older Adults and Higher Education, funded by MetLife Foundation. She has more than 20 years of experience serving adult learners on college and university campuses—as an instructor, academic advisor, and administrator of prior learning assessment programs. Her published articles and workshop presentations have focused on the evaluation of workplace training, interdisciplinary work-based curricula, academic credit transfer policies, online learners, and e-portfolio systems.