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Download full textBrooks, Jean; Maynard, Betty J. – 1973
The impact of the College Level Examination Project (CLEP) upon the total community has been good but not widespread enough to be classified "successful." Within the academic community there has been the overwhelming acceptance of CLEP and a continuing upgrading of credits to the benefit of the student, with a growing standardization of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Programs, Evaluation
Reich, David L. – 1971
In January 1970 the Council on Library Resources (CLR) arranged a meeting to introduce the Dallas Public Library to the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) and to the idea of a project in which the Library would assume the role of acting as a center for CLEP information and providing assistance to CLEP candidates. The historical background of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Programs
Reich, David L. – 1972
A history of the Independent Study Project (ISP) as well as a report of the progress of the Project is presented. The presentation is divided into several parts: the history of the Project, what is actually proposed, what was done during the first six months of the Project, and what is being attempted now. The presentation concludes with an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Programs
Brooks, Jean – 1972
To outline what has been accomplished within the first six months period of the Independent Study Project (ISP) without delineating minute detail is the purpose of this report. While it is a "state of the art" report, it should be recognized that a continual trial and error and evaluation process has been and is still being engaged in by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Programs
Maynard, Betty J. – 1972
The Independent Study Project of the Dallas Public Library has as its primary goal the testing of the feasibility of utilizing an existent public institution, the library, for enabling qualified persons to earn credits toward a degree through independent study and examination. More proximate goals are: (a) the assessment of demand locally for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Programs
Perez-Rioja, Jose Antonio – Unesco Bull Libr, 1970
An example of a dynamic and integrated institution for lifelong education. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education Centers, Cultural Centers, Foreign Countries
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
