Faculty at colleges and universities across the nation are under pressure to provide engaging classroom environments suited to a diverse student population in order to increase student retention. Faculty professional development is often supported by Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Larger, well-funded schools have created CTLs with…

LIMITED FACILITIES HAVE BEEN RESTRICTING EXISTING AND PROPOSED PROGRAMS IN ADULT EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A CAMPUS CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER, WHICH WOULD AID IN THE EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION OF SHORT COURSES, CONFERENCES, INSTITUTES, AND SEMINARS. SUCH A CENTER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MEET 85 PERCENT OF THE SHORT…

The Watergate Learning Center, recently opened by Sterling Learning Center in Washington, D. C., blueprints the plan established by Sterling and Marriott Hotels for a national chain of learning centers with much the same facilities. (EB)

The first in a series, this article touches on the activities, resources, program offerings, and underlying philosophy of a new type of continuing education center set in a modern British town center. (LY)

This article continues an account of educational services and activities carried on through a new type of continuing education center set in a modern British Own center. (LY)

RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE FOR A REMOTE CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTER OPERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON IN A SECLUDED AREA NEAR MANCHESTER, WASHINGTON, COMPLEMENTARY TO AN ADJACENT MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER. THE OPTIMUM CAPACITY SUGGESTED WAS FOR 60 PERSONS OVERNIGHT AND 150 FOR DAILY INSTRUCTION AND DINING. FACILITIES WOULD INCLUDE…

The center contains an auditorium seating 320, seven conference rooms of varying sizes, a reference library, a recording studio, and computer terminal, photographic, and graphic rooms. (Author/MLF)

A list, with descriptions, of all late responses - received after May 30, 1972 deadline - to the survey conducted for the main Directory is given. Only institutions/organizations reporting activities and/or research in comparative adult education (or at least studies of adult education abroad), or those reporting to have a library or documentation…

Discusses the reasons why conventional classroom facilities won't work for continuing education. Illustrates how one continuing education center was designed and built and suggests how flexibility can be built into a facility without the use of movable partitions. (DN)

The Wilmington, Delaware, public school system plans to create a new educational facility designed to meet the special educational needs of urban students. To be called Brandywine Educational Park, this facility will consist of four interrelated centers, each one designed to correct a deficiency of the traditional academic public educational…

The adult education directory was prepared for three purposes: as a guide for counselors and adult students who wish to know what courses are available in Tanzania to meet their special interests and needs; to inform adult educators of the present provisions and fields of study covered by existing organizations; and to offer information on the…

By leasing the Eugene W. Kettering Engineering and Science Center in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Wright State University plans to enlarge significantly its activities in continuing education for engineers, scientists, and others. (JR)

With its diversified adult education program, Colorado Mountain College serves 26 different communities through two campuses and nine continuing education centers. (MW)

The Thomas Jefferson Junior High School and Community Center was conceived to accommodate combined services while conserving land and funds. The objective was to create a "community growth center" to be primarily an educational plant with focus on the middle years of youth as well as providing a "school for people" with…

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has recognized the changing need within society to provide teaching resources to new student constituencies, which include working adults, housewives, former college drop-outs, and older persons, whether in mid-career or in retirement. To reach this constituency, state colleges…