The author comments on Cyril O. Houle's article, The Potential Audience for the External Degree. (PG)

The author comments on Barbara H. Mickey's article, Designing the External Degree Program. (PG)

This article provides background on several types of nontraditional higher education programs, particularly the external degree programs. The program effectiveness and related costs strategy developed by Empire State College and adapted to several other institutions are reviewed. (JMF)

The field-based program of Nova University is described in terms of the nature of the clients and the institution's relationship to the broad system of higher education. Structural factors that contribute to the program's effectiveness are outlined along with problems affecting the future of such programs. (JMF)

Millsaps College inaugurated an Adult Degree Program to compensate for the predicted diminishing number of traditional age students and to establish a degree program incorporating a number of innovations of value to working adults. Issues considered before implementing the program included the impact of such a degree offering on existing programs,…

Lifelong learning has great political and social implications for formal educational institutions. Imported from Europe, lifelong education stresses education for all ages offered at the time the learner needs the competencies being taught and supplied by the society as a whole rather than just from the schools. The forces that produce the growing…

Virginia's institutions of higher education conferred 29,757 degrees in 1973-74, an increase of 12 percent over the 26,498 conferred during the previous year. The document examines the enrollment trends for state supported institutions and privately controlled colleges and universities in the state. Some of the variables analyzed include: level,…

The New Careers program sponsored by the University of Colorado Center for Urban Affairs has developed two innovative features: (1) Training is based on a process model of education, and (2) The program is committed to developing as trainers persons who are from a poverty or minority group background. The model provides for two programs. The…

This document, based on 3-year summary reports submitted by the participating schools, summarizes programs supported by the Manpower Research Institutional Grant Program under authority of Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended. In June 1966, the first grants were awarded to seven colleges and universities. The…

This newsletter from the Community College Baccalaureate Association provides research and institutional updates on community college baccalaureate degrees. The first issue introduces the organization and provides a brief description of the highly specialized four-year degrees (applied, workforce degrees) that are designed to meet the needs of…

This newsletter from the Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) provides research and institutional updates on community college baccalaureate degrees. The first issue describes two institutional case studies of community college baccalaureate degree programs. The first, a manufacturing technology baccalaureate degree at Westark…

Dean Troutt leads the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and makes a cogent argument for continuing studies for our nation's adults. (Editor)

Discussion of 2 themes, the minority student and special programs, comprise the bulk of this review. (Author)

Special issue devoted to foreign language instruction in adult education. (WB)