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PDF pending restorationMoen, Norman W., Ed. – 1980
Educational opportunities provided by the General College of the University of Minnesota are described. Among the developments is outreach to working adults through evening and off-campus courses. Special career offerings include training in law enforcement to meet statewide police licensing standards as well as to provide a specific academic…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Career Education, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
Download full textSLOAN, DENVER – 1965
TO DETERMINE WHY ONE-THIRD OF THE STUDENTS ENROLLING IN CORRESPONDENCE WORK DURING ANY CALENDAR YEAR DO NOT COMPLETE THE COURSES AND TO ELICIT SUGGESTIONS FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DROPOUTS AND CANCELLATIONS, QUESTIONNAIRES WERE MAILED TO 762 CORRESPONDENCE STUDY DROPOUTS. DATA FROM THE 135 QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED ARE TABULATED IN THIS STUDY.…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, College Students, Correspondence Study, Dropout Prevention
Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor. Center for Continuing Education for Women. – 1965
A CONFERENCE ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN EMPHASIZED THE EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE FIELDS OF TEACHING, SOCIAL WORK, HEALTH SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND LIBRARY SCIENCE, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN UNDERGRADUATE LIBERAL ARTS. THE MORNING ADDRESS DESCRIBED THE SARAH…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Counseling
ALEXANDER, FRANK K. – 1968
COMBINED DATA ON THIRD AND FOURTH CYCLE LESSONS OF THE CLINTON COUNTY FAMILY SERVICE PROGRAM WERE USED TO STUDY THE SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF TEACHING. PLACE OF RESIDENCE, HOME OWNERSHIP, AGE, EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, MARITAL STATUS, FAMILY COMPOSITION, EMPLOYMENT, MOBILITY, INCOME, AND…
Descriptors: Age, Educational Background, Employment, Extension Education
JOHNSON, BEN F.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE "COMMITTEE FOR ESTABLISHING CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR SELECTION OF PROPOSALS" IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, ADVISED THE CREATION OF A "PROPOSAL REVIEW COMMITTEE" TO ASSESS THE MERITS OF NEW UNIVERSITY EXTENSION PROJECTS, PROPOSED FOR FUNDING UNDER TITLE I, HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, PRIOR TO KNOWLEDGE OF AVAILABLE FUNDS, TO…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Community Involvement
OLEAN, SALLY J. – 1967
AFTER WORLD WAR II, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY MOVED INTO THE ADULT EDUCATION FIELD, AND ARE NOW SPENDING A REPORTED $20 BILLION ANNUALLY IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THEIR SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL AND MANAGEMENT. LARGE INDUSTRIES, LIKE IBM, HAVE COMPLETE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES FOR THEIR PERSONNEL. FORD AND GENERAL MOTORS USE OUTSIDE EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Agency Cooperation, Business
HOULE, CYRIL O. – 1967
A NARRATIVE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF WEST DAKOTA A AND M UNIVERSITY PROVIDES A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION. IN THIS LAND-GRANT COLLEGE, THE EXTENSION SERVICE WAS ONLY THE LARGEST OF NUMEROUS ADULT PROGRAMS ON AND OFF CAMPUS. OTHER INSTITUTIONS, USING THE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE AS A MODEL, WERE…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Educational Needs
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM S. – 1967
IN AN ADDRESS THE AUTHOR STATES THAT THE POPULATION EXPLOSION VERSUS WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION CAPACITY, TOGETHER WITH URBAN BLIGHT, POVERTY, AND FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY, INCREASING COMPETITION FOR TRAINED MANPOWER, AND RELATED IMBALANCES IN AMERICAN EDUCATION CONSTITUTE MAJOR TRENDS AND ACUTE PROBLEMS IN TODAY'S SOCIETY. THE AUTHOR FEELS UNIVERSITIES…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1980
Comprehensive information about instructional locations away from the main campuses of the State University of New York is presented. Five statistical tables pertaining to fall 1979 data are included: (1) summary information on the 348 locations; (2) detailed information by institution on the locations; (3) instructional locations away from the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, College Students, Community Colleges
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1967
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS EIGHT STUDIES ON INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA USE--TELEVISION IN NIGER AND COLOMBIA (IN-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION), CHICAGO (JUNIOR-COLLEGE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION), PERU (EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION AND LITERACY), IVORY COAST (LITERACY), TELEVISION, FILM, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN ALGIERS (TEACHER-TRAINING), CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT THE…
Descriptors: Communications, Correspondence Study, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
SCHWARTZ, B. – 1967
THIS ESSAY DEALS MAINLY WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE POTENTIAL OF CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCE. THE BASIC TYPES OF ADULT EDUCATION ARE DISTINGUISHED, AND EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, ADULT CHARACTERISTICS, AND VARIOUS LEARNING PROBLEMS OF ADULTS ARE DISCUSSED. EFFORTS BY THE CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE COOPERATION ECONOMIQUE ET SOCIALE TO PROMOTE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Educational Objectives
Daigneault, George H. – 1963
A study was made of the university evening college decision-making role of resident departmental chairmen at 12 universities (four publicly supported, two Roman Catholic, six private nonsectarian) in the Midwest and East. Liberal arts department chairmen, liberal arts deans, and evening deans were interviewed. In all but two institutions, evening…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitudes, College Faculty, Day Programs
Savicevic, Dusan M. – 1968
Now an integral part of the Yugoslav national educational system, adult education in Yugoslavia is based on the principles of permanence, democracy, decentralization, functional unity, diversity and dynamism, and voluntarism. Adult basic, vocational, general, and other forms of adult education are offered in varying degrees and forms by primary…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Coady, M. M. – 1939
The book records the development of the program of adult education and economic cooperation sponsored by St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The program dates from 1853 when a Catholic theological school was established at Arichat. In 1855 the school was transferred to Antigonish, named St. Francis Xavier, enlarged and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cooperatives, Credit (Finance), Discussion Groups
Yadao, Fausto, Jr.; Warlow, G. L. – 1968
A study was made of the relationship of the relative scores of respondents on each of five learning orientations (learning, desire for sociability, personal goal, societal goal, and need fulfillment) to selected personal characteristics (age, sex, marital and family status, occupation, income, residence location, religious preference), social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Extension Education, Family Status
