Briefly describes the University Without Walls program at the University of Minnesota, the adult students who are enrolled, and a report on how these students assess some of their experiences in the program. (Author/RK)

This article provides teachers of adolescents and adults with a number of instructional activities designed to develop basic literacy abilities. A number of problems and exercises are presented which should prove involving and meaningful to ESL (English as a Second Language) students at the secondary level. (Author/CFM)

Harper College's women's center offers support and encouragement to women choosing to re-enter the working world or return to school, and an opportunity for women to enrich their current life styles or to reach out for new ones. (JG)

Reviews the literature pertaining to creative methods currently being employed by the nation's community colleges to recruit non-traditional students. A bibliography is included. (DC)

If two-year colleges wish to sustain a steady state or achieve growth, there must be a continued shift of resources and emphasis from accommodating the traditional full-time 18-to-24-year-old student to the new majority, the adult part-time student. (DC)

"De-schooling" adult language learning aims at getting away from classroom formalism, teacher dominance, pupil passivity, and pressure to achieve. Recommended devices include greetings and introductions, simulated interviews, brief conversations with seat neighbors, and role-playing in partner and group work. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Student-customers' demands and taxpayer-patrons' directives press for postsecondary education for all. Traditional, "new," and adult students all want a curriculum relevant to their own needs, in a setting of physical flexibility that guarantees access, and it is up to trustees to respond. (Editor/LBH)

Investigated coping strategies for dealing with role conflicts among returning women students (N=92). Found that professional and nonprofessional women used different coping strategies for different conflicts. Indicated that professional women experienced more intense conflicts between roles as employee-home maintenance person and employee-parent…

Analyzed use, holding power effectiveness, cost, staffing, and cost-effectiveness for seven retention programs across smaller community colleges (N=93). Results suggest that peer-related and adult learner interventions may be useful. (Author/NB)

Reports the comments of students who come to the writing class from the work place. Argues that teachers need to change their teaching methods to meet the needs of these students. (FL)

Instructors who are sensitive to the needs of adult students promote a classroom atmosphere conducive to learning. Students learn best when following a well-organized program of instruction. (JOW)

A visiting professor from Manhattan Community College describes her 1979-81 experiences teaching English at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, People's Republic of China). Offers anecdotes about her students, mainly middle-aged scientists requiring English skills to return to work after ten years of idleness, physical labor, or imprisonment during the…

A study by the joint matriculation board of five British universities is reported concerning the characteristics of adult students applying to the institutions through a special program for applicants not having traditional qualifications and the achievement and perceptions of those who entered. (MSE)

Using the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program to recognize prior learning can increase institutional income while reducing student costs. Recent studies at the University of Toledo are described. (MLW)

Workshop Way is described: a scientific educational system that organizes time, materials, and strategies so as to permit students to develop and maintain positive feelings as persons and learners, and to handle new material without fear of failure. (Author/MLW)