The Sarah Lawrence Continuing Education Center provides educational opportunities for women who are not now in college, but who wish to continue their educations. This book is a publication about and a catalog for the Continuing Education Center. The Undergraduate Program is explained, as are procedures for admission, financial aid, course work,…

The external degree movement is raising critical questions for higher education. It is necessary for advocates of new programs to deal with the basic assumptions underlying higher education in America. Faculty governance, the determination of what constitutes worthwhile knowledge, the selection of some subject matters and the rejection of others,…

Tables, charts, and graphs outline the current enrollment status of four-year public institutions of higher education and the community college system. They also provide a perspective of trends over the past several years of selected enrollment elements such as entrances directly from high school, veteran enrollment, part-time enrollment, males…

Married mothers and their husbands were interviewed at the beginning and end of the women's first year of enrollment in a university to study changes in marital happiness when women return to school. Marital happiness declined over the year among couples in which wives were enrolled as full-time students. (Author/MLW)

A 1986 survey of first-year law students in four Australian universities provides a profile of student characteristics, including sex, age, course type (law only or combined), full- or part-time enrollment status, educational background, income, parental education and income, marital status, residence, and personal contact with others in the legal…

From 1970 to 1983 the proportion of part-time college students increased steadily from 28 to nearly 40 percent. Enrollment at community colleges rose from 48 to 64 percent, while at four-year institutions the increase was from 20 to 23 percent. These trends are discussed and illustrated by tables. (MLW)

An assessment was conducted to determine accurately the true cost of education at different types of institutions and to identify the degree of government support. The article discusses procedures for updating the data, cost components, data sources, indirect tax expenditures for postsecondary education, and how to obtain additional information.…

A 1982 study comparing the Open University with 27 other institutions providing part-time bachelors degree programs in two regions of Yorkshire revealed that although the Open University has some aspects that students might find preferable, there are many areas in which other institutions are competitive. (MSE)

Students in two Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes were surveyed (862 usable responses from 1,700 metropolitan students, 297 from 1,008 regional students). Focus group discussions were held with three metro and five regional students. A higher proportion of regional than metro students were volunteers or wanted to…

In April, 1919, at the request of the Board of Education of Memphis, Tennessee, the United States Commissioner of Education submitted the conditions on which the Bureau of Education would make a survey of the public school system of that city. This study of the Memphis schools is intended to be a study of policies and practices; not of persons.…

Describes Los Rios Community College District's study of reverse transfer students, i.e., community college students with prior four-year college experience. Reverse transfers represented 20 percent of the study population, with college graduates attending the community colleges for career-related reasons and nongraduates attending for financial…

Proposes: (1) self-help materials and activities, (2) noncredit courses to deliver counseling services, and (3) collaboration among selected professionals to deal with the problem of "counseling inequity" with regard to part-time and evening students. (AYC)

Like other British universities, Warwick University has sought to expand offerings for adult students by developing new part- and full-time degree programs. Separate but related surveys have investigated the students' characteristics, educational backgrounds, and study purposes. The extent to which distinct or overlapping markets for adult…

Outlines and evaluates the use of landlines for multisite video conferencing at the University of Ulster. Developments in video conferencing are described, increased opportunities for continuing and higher education for part-time students in Northern Ireland are discussed, initial reactions of students and teachers are reported, and future plans…

A study of 723 doctoral students investigated the relationship between time taken to complete the degree and economic factors, including employment hours, study hours, household income, indebtedness, amount and type of aid, and part-time student status. Field of study and foreign/domestic student status were also considered. (Author/MSE)