This paper, published in 1965, identifies contemporary developments in adult and continuing education in three categories: a new climate and milieu, institutional changes, and new program developments. The following evidence of a new climate and milieu is discussed: broader scope and wider acceptance of adult education; more federal activity in…

Student services offices are often designed to react to crisis rather than plan interventions. This program is an innovative approach to academic advising for undecided or undeclared students. Overall, this program was developed on the basis of leading perspectives of student development--both personal development and epistemological…

This directory of 136 postsecondary programs serving deaf and hard of hearing students in North America is based on a 1994 survey. Introductory material provides guidance for the student, including answers to frequently asked questions and suggestions for counselors such as guidelines to help students choose the most appropriate program. Program…

This paper describes an innovative service learning program developed at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, a historically black college in a poor rural area. Project DREAMS (Developing Responsibility through Education, Affirmation, Mentoring, and Service) involves college student volunteers serving as tutors and mentors to elementary…

According to this paper, the ultimate purpose of graduate and postgraduate education is to design programs to promote improvement in the quality of services that are provided in a variety of different contexts and systems--health and human services, business and industry, government and public service, and education and training. Nova Southeastern…

An annotated bibliography was created of 70 books dealing with the subject of Feminist Spirituality. This bibliography was distributed, together with a cover letter explaining the project, to a limited list of experts, who were asked to choose those books that they felt were important enough to be included in a public university library's core…

All nine state universities in the State University System of Florida (SUS) have communication programs, two of which are designed to teach journalism exclusively, and the others combining mass communication, journalism and communication studies. Because of the student demand for education in one or more of the fields of communication, combined…

At the University of Rhode Island, instructors in English and other disciplines are looking critically at the writing program. At present that program offers a range of basic, intermediate and advanced undergraduate writing classes--courses that are grounded in at least two sets of assumptions that deserve scrutiny. The first set of assumptions…

A study was conducted to improve understanding of higher education's impact on the growth, sustenance, and improvement of vocational education programs in higher and secondary education. The research focused on how higher education can improve higher and secondary vocational education during the next 10 years. Research was conducted using the…

The Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) of the state of Washington is charged with the responsibility for approval of new degree programs to be offered by public four-year institutions. It is responsible for the review and approval of both on- and off-campus programs, including branch campus offerings. This report offers guidelines and…

This document records the oral and written testimony of representatives of veterans' groups and of the Department of Veterans Affairs at a congressional hearing on H.R. 996, the Veterans Education Outreach Program. That bill would continue funding for the program, which helps recruit veterans to receive the college education to which they are…

This report describes a 4-year project designed to develop a teacher education program at Pennsylvania State University to prepare teachers for human services occupations. In the 1987-88 project year, five initial steps were taken: (1) development of a rationale for the program; (2) a literature review; (3) collection of resource materials; (4)…

A nontraditional degree program for adult students at Southwest Texas State University instituted a bulletin board system (BBS) in support of required courses in both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs to provide information, communication, and mentoring. The BBS was especially useful to students in preparing their portfolios of life…

In 1990-91, responding to the rapid growth and change of both community and college, New Mexico State University's (NMSU's) Dona Ana Branch Community College (DABCC) revised its 5-year plan which was adopted in 1989 to establish goals that would shape the actions, policies, and plans of the college. These goals included: (1) increase instructional…

A survey of college and university career planning and placement directors was conducted in 1987 with a response rate of 67% (N=880). Findings were compared to data from earlier surveys conducted in 1981 and in 1975. Eight-five percent of the offices responding indicated that they had a centralized structure; 58.1% had the word "career" in their…