Discusses establishing a climate for adult learning, assumptions about adult learning, and factors for a successful continuing professional education program. Provides a checklist to assist the professional education program manager in creating a satisfactory learning environment. This list includes activities to be performed prior to, during, and…

Summarizes the development of the Arts and Humanities Division of the National University Extension Association, describing past difficulties between continuing education specialists and academic humanists in humanities programing and the recent workshops, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, to promote primarily credit-oriented…

A survey of educational programers and of older adult participants in an elderhostel sought to measure the former's expectations and the latter's motivations and preferences. Findings suggest that programers must revise assumptions about older learners, develop new strategies for attracting this market, and increase interactive program planning.…

The Dean of Continuing Education and Extension, University of Minnesota, discusses continuing education delivery systems and presents approaches needed for successful university extension continuing education programs. (MF)

Describes residential conference centers, types of center programming, staffing and organization, financial operation of the centers, physical facilities, how technology and electronics have changed the centers, and the effect of competition. (CT)

From the standpoint that the humanities represent a second change for adult students, the author addresses the issues of noncredit nondegree programs, the organization and funding of continuing education, and the promotion of humanities courses. (SK)

Concerns are expressed about the state of professional continuing education in colleges and universities, particularly with regard to new State licensure laws, the exclusion of extension professionals from the action in many programs, lack of planning for the disadvantaged, and program control by outside professionals. (JT)

After pointing up the need for communication and cooperation between extension operations conducting professional continuing education and the professional associations of the publics they serve, the author suggests an interdisciplinary brokerage role for the National University Extension Association (NUEA). (JT)