Patricia Clayback, Associate Dean, Director

Adult Academic Services provides academic guidance and support to adult undergraduate students. Students are advised and provided with information concerning academic programs, policies, and procedures. Adult students are defined as those who are at least 22 years of age upon admission, whether they are entering the college as freshmen, returning to the college after a period of absence or entering the college with academic credits from another institution.

Advisement and Registration
Students meet with an academic adviser to plan their schedule of courses. The office of the Associate Dean is located in Bagen Hall 103. Therefore, any questions relating to transfer credit, the pass/fail option, course withdrawal, or other academic policies concerning adult students should be directed to that office.

Academic Programs
All academic programs offered by the college are open to adult students. A variety of degree and certificate programs are available during the day and on a part-time basis in the evening.

Non-Collegiate Learning Assessment Program
The purpose of the program is to identify and document the life experience an adult student has accumulated and determine the applicability of that experience to an academic degree. 

To properly evaluate the level and extent of each student’s life learning, the college requires that each assessment process include the preparation of a portfolio that contains evidence of the student’s life experience. Each student must matriculate into a degree program at the college. The student is responsible for becoming familiar with the requirements of the degree program chosen and for verifying that the learning described in their portfolio applies to the particular degree.

In constructing a portfolio, each student is given assistance by an individual portfolio adviser.  At least three semesters and 36 credit hours must be completed at Canisius before a student may apply to the program. 

Students must apply for admission to the program through the office of Adult Academic Services.

LLL 499 – NLAP (Non-Collegiate Learning Assessment Program)
Assessment of a student’s life experience based upon their individual portfolio. To be completed under the supervision of an adviser. Credit hours awarded depend on advisor assessment.