Discusses recent innovations in scheduling, timing, and delivery formats that should allow more working adults to pursue graduate study in adult education. Highlights Syracuse University's Weekend Scholar option and Teachers College's Adult Education Guided Independent Study (AEGIS) program. (CH)

Competency based education is a model which can be utilized for training and evaluating alcohol and drug abuse personnel. An identification and assessment process is described relating to the development and implementation of a competency based bachelor's degree program for students majoring in alcohol and drug abuse related areas. (Author/BEF)

This inventory of academic degree programs was compiled primarily as an aid to institutional and statewide planning for postsecondary education. Programs listed are current as of the 1979 academic term. The level or levels of each program are categorized as certificate, associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees, masters degrees, education…

The origins, accomplishments, problems, and implications of competence-based reforms in higher education are examined. Competence-based education is defined as that form of education that derives a curriculum from an analysis of a prospective or actual role in modern society and that attempts to certify student progress on the bases of…