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Peer reviewedHiggerson, Mary Lou – Continuing Higher Education Review, 1988
Discusses factors affecting higher education that will allow continuing education to assume a more central role: (1) aging of the student body, (2) changes in the work force, and (3) advocacy of economic development. Details the new role and provides guidelines for assessing program readiness to fulfill it. (CH)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Change
