Describes two programs initiated at Columbia University to increase creative adult learning opportunities for older people: the Seniors Teaching Seniors Project and the Retired Faculty Linkage Program, which involves retired university personnel in work with community organizations. (DMM)

Describes the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Texas at Dallas, which offers a noncredit, self-supporting continuing education program, and the factors contributing to its success. Focuses on internal characteristics, administrative support, and positive program outcomes. (DMM)

Describes three programs cosponsored by the University of Texas at Dallas Center for Continuing Education: a children's theater workshop series; a fund-raising institute; and a professional writers' conference. Using these as examples, discusses advantages of cosponsorships, financial arrangements, and offers operational guidelines. (DMM)

Suggests creative uses for noncredit activities; e.g., to cost-effectively offer professional development activities and to foster lifelong learning during college attendance. Underscores the importance of clearly stated goals in planning noncredit activities, offering of St. Clair College's Winter Workshop Week for human services professionals as…

Provides an overview of the relations between higher education and business and industry, focusing on the development of corporate training/education programs and recent improvements in higher education-corporate education relations. Offers a case study of a collaborative arrangement between the AEtna Institute for Corporate Education and the…

Examines the articulation of an industrial technology teacher education program between a university and a community college for the purpose of delivering a technology-based education program at the university. Outlines program needs that led to the articulation effort, factors associated with successful articulation, problems that developed, and…