This handbook, produced by a project of the Office of Public Libraries and Interlibrary Cooperation (OPLIC), provides planning, topic, funding, and resource information to help public libraries in Minnesota, in collaboration with other education and community agencies, provides public adult programming in the humanities. Information was gathered…

A history of the American Institute of Sacred Literature, from its beginning in 1880 as a correspondence school of Hebrew under William Rainey Harper until its dissolution at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1948, was gathered by interview and search of primary source materials. The Institute's affiliation with other agencies through…

This is the final report of the Seattle Community Learning Center. The objectives of the project were to extend education and social outreach to members of the community not presently served in adult basic education, occupational skills, childcare, health assistance, family counseling, recreation, and social service referral. The project involved…

According to recent census figures, 10% of today's population are over 65 years old. It has often been stated that individual learning needs and capabilities decline with age. To challenge this idea, a study was conducted to gather information about older adults, their learning interests, activities, and obstacles. Four hypotheses were tested…

The current economic outlook, including the prospectus of high unemployment rates, creates new objectives and new perspectives to the growing national phenomenon known as the mid-life career change. During the past five to seven years we have witnessed the growth and development of adult counseling centers, whose primary focus is to provide…

The Federally-sponsored research and development project centered on the current state of participatory management programs in correctional institutions. Questionnaires were mailed to all adult institutions known to have some form of council or committee structure. On-site visits conducted at several institutions included: large and small; male,…

The final report of a project that developed a catalog of all 4,783 adult education programs in Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) is presented. The document discusses two aspects of the project: (1) the development and implementation of the catalog and (2) the identification and in-depth study of nine…

Differences between participants and nonparticipants in an on-reserve Indian adult education program in British Columbia were identified by interviewing 22.5 percent of the adult population in a random sample. Eight of 17 socioeconomic variables and 5 of 13 sociopsychological variables differentiated between the 42 participants and 44…

The report of adult education in British Columbia is a preliminary survey of a sample of educational programs for adults in the Province. The report discusses three varieties of adult self-education (casual contacts, structured events, and self-directed learning) and concludes that the hidden costs and deficiencies of such learning are enormous…

This study is concerned with the following topics on adult student attendance at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) during the 1969-70 academic year: student background, reason for attendance, enrollment in programs or courses, academic success, evidence of personal and occupational development. The report is based on the useable…

Prepared by the Episcopal Church, this booklet describes programs of adult Christian Education in other Christian Churches as well as those of the Episcopal Church; they show a diversity in approach, execution, and long range results. The three chapters cover Religion and Life, the Church in the World, and Understanding the Christian Heritage.…

This document contains a historical summary of the Community Service and Continuing Education Program conducted in the State of Arkansas by institutions of higher education for the Fiscal Years 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969, under the Title I Higher Education Act of 1965. Included are various programs, each with its project number, institution with…

The nature and role of criteria in evaluation of adult education programs are presented in this study. The first half of the paper discusses several premises: The goal of evaluation is to use program judgments in the program decision making process. Criteria are essential to judgment and determining the type of criteria that is relevant is an…

The Servicemen's Opportunity College is a network of educational institutions providing military personnel with adult continuing education. The catalog for the SOC begins with a description of student-servicemen and their educational needs, the service response, financial benefits, the development of SOC, the types of SOC schools, and related…

Several essays are presented which discuss alternative delivery systems for adult education in Canada. The individual papers focus on the following topics: 1) an overview of an open Basic Training for Skill Development program; 2) Canadian open adult learning systems; 3) the affective relationship between television and the adult basic education…