Describes the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis program that offers credit classes to students who attend classes in suburban shopping centers. (IRT)

This report examines the results of a survey of 110 students enrolled in Ohio University's Extended Learning Program (ELP) in Cleveland. The questionnaire was designed to provoke comments and criticisms concerning student preferences for scheduling, types of courses to be offered and student recommendations for improving ELP. Results are…

Describes a course offered through the University of Missouri which allows off-campus graduate students to obtain professional experience and get their names in print. (RB)

North Carolina State's humanities-extension program operates through the university's cooperative-extension service. The program was begun when there was a realization that future interest in the humanities might drop, and the university wanted to find outreach outlets for the school's faculty members. (MLW)

Description of the implementation and operation of Howard University's "University Without Walls" within the context of current trends in higher education. (APM)

A music professor reports his experiences teaching in Elderhostel, a nationwide program in which colleges and universities offer on-campus summer learning sessions to senior citizens. (SJL)

Asserting the importance of universities reengaging with their communities, details how the University of Wisconsin-Extension built on the core principles presented in Boyer's "Scholarship Reconsidered" (1990) and Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff's "Scholarship Assessed" (1997) to develop a robust definition of the scholarship of…

The West Virginia extension program hires volunteer camping assistants (VCAs) to work in county 4-H camps. College students who have been in 4-H for at least 10 years, VCAs attend a week-long training session to prepare for overnight camps. A genuine desire to help children motivates most VCAs, but they inspire adult leaders also. (TD)

This report is one of a series of background studies especially prepared for the Conference on Future Structures of Post-Secondary Education held in Paris in June 1973. Following a discussion of the stimuli for change and responses to this stimuli in American higher education, a detailed description of the Extended University of the University of…

Views the teaching of a traditional English curriculum and the development of extramural cultural programs as potentially equal contributions to the discipline of English and describes a wide assortment of extramural offerings provided by the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (AEA)

Bachelor Degrees for Soldiers (BDFS) is a system of voluntary, off-duty bachelor degree programs for Army noncommissioned officers and warrant officers. Bachelor degree programs within the BDFS system are designed to relate directly to the military occupational specialty of soldiers. In operation since October 1986, the program grew out of the…

See CS 703 507 for availability information. (JW)

Describes curriculum used by the Chemistry Department at the American University of Washington, D.C. in preparing and implementing a program to update two groups of women in order to prepare them to enter graduate school or return to the job market in chemistry. (HM)

Continuing education programs are growing rapidly in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Here private universities are offering credit and noncredit courses off campus to take advantage of the influx of employees and their families accompanying corporate headquarters into the area. Discusses off-campus continuing education programs as they are being…