The author suggests that the business of extension is getting people to apply knowledge and use information. He makes observations concerning people and their use of information and knowledge. He presents five characteristics upon which future extension programs should be built. (CT)

Describes Why Weight, a program to train community leaders to recognize an effective diet plan and prepare leaders to teach it to others. Why Weight successfully used television to train more than 300 community leaders. (JOW)

Lists some of the most common questions extension field staff ask when working with distressed farm families. (JOW)

Discusses how the Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service has developed computer programs and used computer technology to improve and expand its educational efforts in food and nutrition. Difficulties encountered in program development are indicated. (BC)

Potential uses of videodiscs in extension programing are (1) storage for audiovisual presentations, (2) an information source via interactive television, and (3) individualized instruction. Advantages include ease of use, technical quality, durability, and speed. (SK)

Thirty-eight married extension agents (40 percent of the married agents in Pennsylvania) were interviewed and their responses analyzed on three scales. Results showed that extension work negatively affects family life due to the job's absorptive characteristics and indirect effects of emotional and psychological spillover agents bring home. (SK)

Traces some of the important changes in Extension in the past 35 years. Examines and compares four long-range evaluations of Extension: (1) Joint Committee Report on Extension Programs, Policies, and Goals (1948), (2) A Statement of Scope and Responsibility (1958), (3) A People and a Spirit (1968), and (4) Extension in the 80s (1983). (JOW)

Evaluating extension programs by the human capital approach involves observing changes in clients' output, input costs, time savings, and economic well-being. (SK)

Discussed the Pilot State Dissemination Program, undertaken as a try-out of an educational extension and retrieval system on a sufficiently large scale to derive guidelines for future projects at the state level. (Author/RK)

The extramural work of the University of Surrey, since its establishment in 1966, has expanded into several areas: activities with the general public, activities with young adults, community studies, work with schools and colleges, work with the health and social services, study of adult education, and research and development. (SA)

The authors provide a model for the addition of computerized management aids to the farm decision-making process as part of Extension services. (Author/AG)

Controversy in the educational environment is a naturally occurring phenomenon. A change model is presented to show alternative ways of dealing with controversy and using it to bring about change. (MS)

The director of Extension Studies at Liverpool University evaluates the Russell Report

A discussion of university provision for parttime students in England and some proposals for improvement. (Editor)

Discusses outreach education, or education designed for students who are not normally reached in regular daytime campus credit work. (Author)