This paper presented views on the role of the university, and particularly the University of Alberta, in the community in the 1970s. Such indicators as population growth, income growth, rising level of education, rising levels of taxation, the rapidity of technological advance, shifts in social pattern, all pointed to a rapidly growing demand on…

The proceedings of the first Region VI Conference of the National University Extension Association held at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, include panel discussions and major talks given. The objective for the conference was to provide a special training opportunity for all staff needs in higher adult education in the West. Topics covered…

This report is one of a series of background studies especially prepared for the Conference on Future Structures of Post-Secondary Education held in Paris in June 1973. Following a discussion of the stimuli for change and responses to this stimuli in American higher education, a detailed description of the Extended University of the University of…

Three summaries of extension service resource utilization by low income and minority groups during fiscal year 1971 are included, with interpretative observations. The first deals with the relationship between general and low income programs in terms of resources expended in areas of agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, and community resource…

This study determined selected characteristics of 958 students enrolled in the Extramural Teaching Program conducted by the Continuing Education Division of Louisiana State University. Data were gathered through a pretested questionnaire administered to the students by the instructors of 83 courses. Frequency distributions of the results yielded…

The purpose of this study was to determine the status of adult and continuing education and other nontraditional study programs of a public service nature that currently exist within the 560 colleges and university members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and to develop a new standard for evaluation and accreditation for use as…

To determine junior college community service personnels' perception of the Cooperative Extension Service, a random sample of 200 community service directors received a questionnaire concerned with: (1) their status, (2) associations with the Extension Service, (3) importance of the Service to their clientele, and (4) understanding and opinions of…

Plans for evaluation should be laid prior to implementation of a program. A hierarchy of types of program evaluation helps select the exact type of evaluation intended. This hierarchy starts with the easiest (and least useful) type of evaluation and six progressively more difficult levels of evaluation are added in cumulative fashion. The seventh…

A Servicemen's Opportunity College (SOC) is a community or junior college that recognizes the need to aid service personnel in quest of educational goals. This catalog of Servicemen's Opportunity Colleges is designed primarily for the use of educational counselors at military bases and educational institutions. Section I of the catalog is an…

This manual describes a program for training extension service employees and states the general policies, requirements and procedures governing the training and development programs for USDA Extension Service staff. The topics covered are: (1) extension service training program--responsibility for training, kinds of training to be carried out; (2)…

A report of a Community Resource Development (CRD) study in the Extension Services of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Missouri is presented. The three states represent different stages of development of CRD work, and are differently organized. The purpose of the study is to compare the three Extension organizations. Extension personnel of relative…

This study was concerned with the problem of decreasing 4-H members at the junior high level. Data were collected from 289 seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in interviews. Data were classified into two groups according to the level of participation in 14 4-H events and activities; there were 173 high participators and 116 low participators. The…

Nontraditional instructional activities are defined in this report as those based on new or unconventional forms of education, free of the constraints of time, place, or form which characterize traditional classroom instruction. The several sections of this report detail a variety of approaches to nontraditional instructional activities at Purdue…

Farmers' perceptions of Extension services and Extension agents representing agricultural organizations in Antioquia, Columbia, were studied. A total of 370 interviews were made with clients of three Extension Services. A positive correlation was found between the client's perception of the agent and years of schooling, economic status, practices…

This report presents the statistical results of agricultural demonstrations for two crops--cotton and sorghum--in Hockley County, Texas. Demonstration results are geared to increase the knowledge and understanding of possible solutions to the many problems that are impediments in reaching long-range goals established by the County's Program…