For over 17 years, Boston Day and Evening Academy has served a population of young people often left behind: those who are off track to high school graduation or who have dropped out altogether. Through its competency-based approach, BDEA has tackled one of the toughest education conundrums of our time: how to recover low-skilled students two or…

This paper examines national trends in student characteristics and enrollment patterns, and presents data collected from a survey of 349 evening, off-campus students, to determine the effectiveness of the community college in meeting students' motivational and academic needs.

Educators at two elementary schools in Arlington, Virginia, have designed evening programs to help immigrant parents acclimate to U.S. schooling practices. One school has a program that orients parents and explains teachers' expectations while children learn socialization skills. The other school combines a similar program with parent volunteer…

Milwaukee Area Technical College served 105,000 adults with its outreach programs during 1977-78 with courses for business and industry employees, adult basic education, community services, family living education, urban concerns, and evening centers. Scope of these programs is briefly described. (MF)

Indicators of quality in the evening, weekend, and outreach programs administered by the Community Services Program are assessed in this report. Part One examines extensive demographic data for the three-county district in terms of population, economic, and educational characteristics. Part Two displays course offerings by geographical location…

A community assessment questionnaire was developed at Worthington Community College (WCC) to determine sources of information about WCC, attitudes toward and knowledge of WCC, educational needs and interests, how WCC's service population could best be served, and respondent characteristics. A total of 200 people in six population centers were…

For the purpose of this bulletin, extension classes are defined as classes organized to meet the needs of persons who are not resident students of an educational institution. Four kinds of extension classes may be distinguished--ordinary classes, short-course classes, lecture classes, and group or club study classes. This grouping is somewhat…

This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…

Of the liberal movements dominating the thought of the world today, the greatest of all is the sweep of education. No phrase or dissertation can compass the entire scope or catch all the essential elements of the newer education that is shaping itself. But everywhere one direction is apparent: The trend of education is toward the people in mass…