Provides a report of the obstacles faced by adult basic education students, and describes educators' lack of concrete knowledge about adult learning processes and appropriate instructional programs. (Author/KS)

School administrators fill a crucial need in education, but all too often their social and emotional worlds turn upside-down when they make this momentous career move. This second edition provides an insightful look at the unwritten and unspoken rules of school administration, helping new and sitting administrators work through the initial…

This study evaluated a program that was designed to empower staff members form nonprofit organizations to design evaluations that help further their organizational mission, addressing the needs of their clients more effectively and efficiently. In 2001-200, the program was offered in five bimonthly, 2-day sessions. Twenty participants from 10…

This brochure lists some steps to help adults in Minnesota who want to further their education and career prospects through college, technical school, or graduate school. Minnesota has several types of postsecondary institutions that offer hundreds of programs. Many of these are geared for adults with courses on weekends and evenings. There are…

This paper emphasizes the importance of avoiding stereotypes about older people in college and university centers for retirement, noting that members of centers for retirement are members of a generation recently in command. There is much folklore about older people and the aging process, and Americans tend to believe too much in the myths of…

Higher education is becoming a voluntary self scheduled activity, pursued by individuals from all social strata throughout their lives. Argues that increase in continuing education will accelerate the erosion of the ivory tower university. Reports on a workshop concerned with new approaches to planning for the adult student in higher education.…

Presents an account of an instructor's experiences while teaching a composition course to U.S. Navy seamen. (TO)

A routine for teachers of adult students to follow at the first class meeting. (SP)

The survey has found that admissions procedures for adults are generally not handled in any special way. The author believes that as long as adult students constitute a growing minority group on campuses, they need special visibility and concern. (Author)

Author offers home truths about adult education'' and the characteristics of adult students. (Author/SP)

An address given before the Australian Universities Conference in May 1971, in which the director of the Department of Adult Education, University of Sidney, urged that there is an important role for universities to play in the provision of facilities for continuing education, and that their present provisions in this field ought to be…

This study investigated the influence of participation in program planning on achievement and attitude. Results: adults participating in program planning seem to have more positive attitudes about their educational experiences; no evidence found that participation in program planning affects achievement. (Author)

Since 1964, The George Washington University, in Washington, D. C., has conducted a program of Continuing Education for Women. More than 1,500 women completed a 15-week group guidance and counseling course in the first six years; and 300 are currently enrolled. Credit courses are provided at times and places convenient for them. (EB)