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English, Anthony M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This chapter describes how professional and continuing higher education units can develop and sustain successful partnerships with academic departments in order to deliver educational programs effectively to students.
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Departments, Higher Education, Continuing Education
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee; Williams, T. H. Lee – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
In this chapter, the authors identify and review a number of key features in the successful development and maintenance of a PhD program delivered at a distance. The University of Oklahoma's PhD program in organizational leadership was developed in the early 1990s and delivered (primarily, but not completely) to military personnel and families…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Distance Education
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Kuipers, Judith L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Adult professionals are continuing their learning over the lifespan entering graduate school in their thirties, forties, fifties, and, even sixties. Knowledge is the new economic currency today and the increasing rate at which new knowledge is generated in the global world requires continuous learning. The author describes Fielding Graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Program Descriptions, Educational History, Educational Development