The first section of this paper includes a brief review of adult development literature with a focus on life-stages. A study of 325 adults who completed questions about themselves is also reported. Areas of concern for important proportions of the sample are noted. Adult development programming can begin with these data-supported focal points. The…

Seven 1979 innovative programs in continuing education are described which won awards from the American College Testing Program and the National University Extension Association. Awards were granted according to programs' transferability, innovativeness, workability, and impact in one of four categories: instructional programs, student services…

Various researchers, including Carl Jung, Charlotte Buhler, Erik Erikson, and Robert Havighurst, have formulated sequential models of adult development. More recent investigators, such as Daniel Levinson, Roger Gould, and Gail Sheehy have formulated age-related sequential models of adult development that view the various stages of adulthood in…