Fourteen papers on adult education are presented from the George Mason University (Virginia) first annual conference on nontraditional, interdisciplinary, and external degree programs. The papers and authors include: "The American Experiential Learning Tradition: Educating the Whole Person" (Walter Raubicheck); "Experience, Learning, and Identity: A Transitional, Interdisciplinary Course for Adults from Urban and Suburban Settings" (Sylvia Chelala, Murial Dance); "Independent Study for Adults in Non-Traditional Higher Education" (Miriam Meyers); "Human Studies: An Individualized, Interdisciplinary Major for Adults" (Douglas L. Robertson); "Philosophy and Performance" (John L. Mowrer); "Twenty Twenty Hindsight: Student Satisfaction with Interdisciplinary Studies Degrees" (Irwin B. Levinstein); "Ten Years of an Individualized Non-Traditional Program: George Mason University's Bachelor of Individualized Study" (James W. Fonseca); "A Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Program for Traditional and Non-Traditional Students" (Daniel C. Pantaleo, Alfred Forsyth); "Outreach for Meeting Community Needs and Institutional Revitalization: A Practical Approach" (Samuel Lee Hancock); "Educating Managers to Meet Future Corporate Education Needs of North American Business" (George Korey); "An Innovative Approach to Career-Oriented Management Education (at Undergraduate and Graduate Levels)" (Yvonne Bogorya); "Neighborhood Programming: Responding to Needs" (Gerri Corbin); "College in Prison: A Non-traditional Prison College Degree Program" (D. Malcolm Leith); and "Non-Traditional Higher Education: An Outsider's View" (Walter Moretz). (LB)