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With Eyes of Equality: Older and Younger Students Learn in a Community College Senior Program.

Heinrich, June Sark – 1991

In contrast to many senior education programs, the senior program at Triton College (TC) has as one of its aims bringing together younger and older students in both noncredit and credit courses without neglecting the need and desire of many older adults to learn in their own age group. The term "older students" is loosely defined at the…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Age Differences, Community Colleges

Building Solid Communities within Higher Education: Leadership, Connections and Commitment. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (63rd, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 3-6, 2001).

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Barrineau, Irene T., Ed. – 2001

These proceedings presents addresses, 60 concurrent sessions, and business meetings from a conference that evolved from a vision of people coming together--like a town meeting--to start building "communities of interest and practice." Part 1 includes the presidential-elect address on his theme for the next conference, "Pathways to…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Instruction

Promising Practices for the 21st Century. Winners of the 1996 Secretary's Awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs.

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Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1997

The 12 programs selected as 1996 winners of the Secretary's Awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs illustrate a diverse range of promising practices for the 21st century. Winners were selected based on the presence of 10 elements, including the following: effective and potentially replicable practices; measurable objectives…

Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy