The future challenge facing institutions of higher education will be in providing better education for individual students rather than expanding facilities and broadening course selection. (JD)

Discusses the factors contributing to the growing demand for lifelong learning and examines the disproportionately low participation rate of minority students in the lifelong learning process. Considers the need to create, from the elementary level onward, self-directed students who are aware of their educational options. (DMM)

Allegorizes higher education as a superhighway, urging the redesign of the structure of higher education to meet the challenge of student diversity in the classroom. Examines trends in providing educational alternatives and suggests offering a program of services that will permit students to take responsibility for their lifelong learning. (JM)

Discusses the factors contributing to the growing demand for lifelong learning and examines the disproportionately low participation rate of minority students in the lifelong learning process. Also discusses the need to create, from the elementary level on, self-directed students who are aware of their educational options. (JP)

Lifelong learning is a movement described as real, necessary, and desirable. A major goal of higher education is seen to be the creation of an equitable learning society in which each individual is helped to become an active agent in his or her own education. (Author/MLW)

Student personnel workers hold a key to quality education in the decade ahead. They are the link between supply and demand. By helping students become more sophisticated consumers of educational services and help-education, they respond to student needs. The concept of lifelong learning requires changes in traditional education. (JAC)

The state of knowledge about adult part-time learners and the programs designed to serve them are reviewed. The primary sources of information were recent data collection projects sponsored by state and national agencies to determine the characteristics and needs of adult learners and potential learners. Selected program descriptions were also…

Developmental education and underprepared entering college students are discussed in light of the increasing diversity in college student bodies. It is noted that larger numbers of older students are gaining access to higher education. Although specialists in the field of developmental education are equipped to deal with the problems of these new…

Although lifelong learning was a term created to mean cradle-to-grave learning, it has come to mean specifically adult learning and education. The adult learning force in the U.S. is huge and growing in size as well as interest. Since eighty-five percent of the active adult learners are high school graduates, they are eligible for postsecondary…