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Direct linkShepard, Jewell – Educational Considerations, 2007
Every adult learning center is continually changing, reflecting demographic changes in their community and state and federal mandates. OutFront--Leavenworth's only adult learning center--is not just changing: it is closing. In this article, the author examines the impact of the closure of the adult learning center in Leavenworth, Kansas. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education Centers, Program Termination
McDuffus, Raphael; Sharp, Irene; Nolan, Noreen – RaPAL Bulletin, 1997
Describes how adult students in Great Britain mobilized research, learning, and action in a campaign to protest building closures and funding cuts. (SK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Community Action, Foreign Countries
Dadswell, Gordon – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
On 21 March 1941, the Council of the Workers' Educational Association of Victoria, Australia, (the Association) voted the organisation out of existence. The demise was in no way contemplated, and there was no practical reason why the Council acted in the way it did. This paper is the story of the destruction of a successful adult education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mythology, Adult Education, Educational Development
Ilsley, Paul J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
This chapter explores the marginality of university-based degree-granting adult education programs and considers how both hopes and fears add to the discourse about the field's vitality.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Program Termination, Entrepreneurship
Valentine, Thomas – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1984
A collaborative enterprise to provide adult education center programs dissolved due to mismanaged interagency cooperation. Problems included unwillingness to relinquish control, lack of candor, poor selection of partners, lack of planning, failure to implement, and failure to evaluate. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation
