Data from a questionnaire sent to 40 British universities about residential course provisions, policies, and practices suggests that regional residential centers are providing valuable opportunities for leisure time education and continuing professional education. (SK)

In a period of declining on-campus student enrollment, many postsecondary institutions are turning to off-campus continuing education programs as a means of helping to alleviate on-campus problems. This article is a cursory analysis of the salient problems faced by off-campus programs in regard to on-campus politics, and the maintenance of…

The future for continuing education centers looks poor unless they mobilize to discover new education "markets" to compensate for the loss of students in regular university departments. This would alleviate some of the tensions between extension and regular services. (MSE)

A study was conducted to determine what types of student service activities take place in National University Extension Association (NUEA) institutions. By means of two questionnaires, information on a total of 134 student service activities from 69 NUEA institutions was gathered. The reported practices are indexed by state and by type of…

The New York State External High School Diploma Program is a competency-based assessment system serving adults who can demonstrate both basic and life skills. It represents an alternative to the General Educational Development (GED) program for busy, working adults--offering flexibility in time, location, and mode of assessment. Developed in the…

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…