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Bell, Alli – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2019
Since 2016, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), with generous support from Lumina Foundation, has been working with states to explore establishing "promise-type" aid programs for adult students (adult promise programs). SHEEO is currently working with 15 states to implement adult promise programs through…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid
Carlson, Andy; Laderman, Sophia – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2018
Promise programs (also known as free college programs) have grown in popularity over the last few years. When targeted correctly, these programs have the potential to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates for underserved students. By focusing a promise program on adult students and including additional supports and services, states…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Education, Student Financial Aid, Adult Programs
Erisman, Wendy – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2015
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) released its Reentry Education Model, an evidence-based effort "to bridge the gap between prison and community-based education and training programs." The model focuses on establishing a strong program infrastructure, strengthening and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Demonstration Programs, Community Education, Adult Education
Dyer, Judith Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study was to explore how low-skilled workers who participated in a health care training program learned to acquire the technical, cognitive, and developmental competencies they needed to gain skilled employment in higher-level positions in the field and thus advance their careers. The data methods used were: (1) in-depth…
Descriptors: Program Design, Job Training, Skilled Workers, Human Capital

Levin, Elaine L.; Kammire, Linda L. – Journal of Career Development, 1986
Discusses aspects of the Georgia State University Counseling Center. Examines the center's philosophy, funding, setting, procedure, staff, services provided (such as career change services, noncredit adult education courses, speaker's bureau, consulting services, conference programs), client profile, and future directions. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Conferences, Consultation Programs
Woolf, Kenneth – 1977
This guide presents a model for planning technological education programs. It presents answers to questions involving: (1) the definition of the program discipline; (2) an assessment of the real need for the program, both generally and in the locale of the institution; (3) the availability of the physical and personnel resources to mount the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Planning, Postsecondary Education

Lewis, Roger – Distance Education, 1980
The Leeds Counseling Project of the National Extension College, Cambridge, sought to investigate the needs of adult correspondence students outside the Open University. The design of the project, its implementation and its results are discussed. The conclusion considers ways in which local counseling might be provided and supported. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Correspondence Study, Counseling Services
Macala, Joan C. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
Explores how sponsored experiential learning programs work--from the perspectives of both the facilitators and the consumers of the learning. Discusses on-campus programs, off-campus centers, the intern position, administering adult internship programs--the sponsor's perspective and the company perspective, and internships with current employers.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Experiential Learning, Internship Programs, Job Training
Dudley, Charles J.; And Others – 1981
Current theory in community education holds that community education programs should move from a "program" orientation to a "process" orientation--process being defined vaguely as an open democratic structure. Three long-running community education projects in rural communities were studied for evidence of this phenomenon. Data…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Definitions
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan. University for Man. – 1985
Based on four regional conferences organized by the Action Agenda Project on the theme of "Serving the Rural Adult," these proceedings examine the similarities and differences the diverse participants contributed to the discussion of rural adult education; the successes and concerns expressed in finances and funding, policy, models, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Conferences, Delivery Systems
Africa: A Survey of Distance Education 1991. New Papers on Higher Education: Studies and Research 4.
John, Magnus – 1991
Country profiles compiled through a survey of distance education in Africa form the contents of this document. International organizations and 35 countries were surveyed: Algeria; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo (Brazzaville); Djibouti; Ethiopia; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Ivory Coast; Kenya;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Distance Education, Educational Finance

Carty, Joan – 1991
Country profiles compiled through a survey of distance education in Latin America and the Caribbean form the contents of this document. Seventeen countries were surveyed in Latin America: Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Distance Education, Educational Finance

Whatley, Alice Elrod – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1975
This article advances an array of hypotheses which are suggested as influential in the establishment and development of programs concerned with continuing education for women on a university campus. The hypotheses are examined and critiqued. (Author/EJT)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Continuing Education Centers, Females

Bicknell, John H. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1975
This article describes the role older students can perform in postsecondary education. It examines the reasons adults are attending school and some of the factors contributing to the older studetn's success. Suggestions are also made about ways to meet the needs and desires of older students. (Author/EJT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Continuing Education Centers, Individual Needs
Klippel, Judith A.; And Others – 1986
The Personal Adult Learning Lab was establsiehd at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education (GCCE) at the University of Georgia to serve self-directed adult learners and conduct research on self-directed learning. The lab allows adult learners to design, conduct, and evaluate their personal learning experiences while proceeding at their own…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, College Programs