Trabant reviews the early characteristics of university extension, how the characteristics have changed in a 40-year period, and what they mean for the future in a speech presented at a National University Extension Association regional conference. (AG)

Presents an account of an instructor's experiences while teaching a composition course to U.S. Navy seamen. (TO)

Higher educational institutions should get together to develop a coherent approach to nontraditional study to meet the diverse needs of an increasingly heterogeneous student population. (Author/PG)

Coming to terms with vocational motivation may well be the crucial test for the continuance of a distinctive university adult education tradition. (Author)

Gives a list of university extension libraries in the U.S. and Canada. (GB)

A university extension program in Wisconsin involved traveling faculty who function as counselors to those interested in resuming or changing careers. (SP)

A discussion of the role of the university as the cultivator of a generation of addicted learners,'' and of the role of Extension in the lifelong learning process. (Author/SP)

Two counties in Ohio are used as models for Extension organizations striving to reach and serve urban clientele. (DS)

Discusses an educational project in India, which established correspondence education for academically deficient students. (RK)

Michigan State University is trying to turn its populist past - tied to the soil, the small farmer, the agricultural extension agent - to the concerns of the Seventies, to the problems of the cities, of minorities, of people who have long been ignored by higher education. (Author/RK)

The University of Zambia is involved in adult education at various levels and with different agencies throughout Zambia, and it is intended to develop a program of adult education in which each agency plays a cooperative and mutually reinforcing part. The program's operation in the Eastern Province is here discussed and evaluated. (Author/JB)

West Virginia University's Cooperative Extension Service sponsors a four-day women's program involving classes, dormitory life, and cultural and recreational events. (SP)

The expertise of Extension or community health educators can be used to mobilize actual and potential patients, professionals, lay people, community groups and specific agencies; program innovations at the state and local levels in Maryland are reviewed. (Editor)