Guidelines and procedures which Texas Agricultural Extension Service personnel may use in working with local people in planning and carrying out county programs are provided in this handbook. The program building process is based on the philosophy that people have both the desire and ability to plan and carry out educational programs. The handbook…

Arkansas adult leaders (N=95) were surveyed to test the hypothesis that a cooperative extension service educational program would increase participants' knowledge of land use planning over that of a control group and would also affect attitudinal changes toward land use problems and policies. Nineteen respondents were selected from each of 5…

To determine the degree of inequity operative between more progressive and less progressive farmers in Tetu, Kenya, baseline data from a 1970 survey of randomly selected farmers (N=354) were compared with data derived from a 1973 survey of 341 of the same respondents. Using the 1970 criteria for progressiveness (most progressive, upper middle,…

The opportunitites exist for those off-campus administrators who wish to adopt some of the techniques of successful marketing managers. Off-campus administrators must begin searching for ways to respond to environmental opportunities before they are forced to, under considerable internal and competitive pressure, respond to an academic enrollment…

Describes the development, facilities, and curriculum of San Francisco's new Downtown Community College Center (a part of the San Francisco Community College District) which offers credit free, open-entry/open-exit classes with an emphasis on business skills; lower division college credit classes; and upper division university extension classes.…

The urban university plays an important role in the intellectual life of the urban community. Traditional universities would do well to undertake more community-oriented tasks in order to fulfill this important role of an urban university. (Author/MC)

Comments on intergenerational problems and relationships by middle-aged children and their aging parents, as expressed on cards in an extension service class, are presented to stimulate research attention on the interaction that occurs between adults and their parents. (MF)

Discusses what steps were taken by the Cooperative Extension Service in Oklahoma, after the energy crisis began, to help landowners make better decisions regarding oil and gas leases. Oklahoma's Extension educational efforts in mineral rights management have been successful because they met the needs of the people. (EM)

Extension education and its components (the methods and techniques of education and subject matter know-how) are defined and their interrelationships are analyzed. (EM)

Reviews the historical development of adult and continuing education as provided through the Open University system of Great Britain. An interview with the librarian for Oxford's Department of External Studies examines the current status of the program and describes the library services available to participants. (8 references) (CLB)

University distance education has developed in Canada on a mainly intra-provincial and occasionally regional basis. Five kinds of development are identified: correspondence programs; open universities; "outport" programs; "extension" programs; and the network. (Author/MLW)

A study of the training needs of extension specialists in 1890 land-grant institutions concludes with the finding that the greatest need for training is in the area of evaluating and reporting extension programs. Data were collected from questionnaires returned by 81 extension specialists and 14 extension administrators. (Author/EC)

Discusses the report of the Open University Committee which proposes the promotion of the open university learning experiment throughout the country, with attention focused on adapting distant education for adults (correspondence courses, radio and television instruction) to university level studies. (TA)

This publication, based on a study of the teleconferencing capabilities of 825 community colleges, is designed to assist colleges and businesses in further developing and utilizing telecommunications resources. The survey was developed by Hezel Associates: (1) to document the existing telecommunications capabilities of community colleges; (2) to…

This study examined differences in final course grades for campus-based and distance education students in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University (Florida). Data on 4,161 course grades for winter term 1997 were obtained from university records. It was found that students enrolled in courses offered through…