Corporate education is an extensive, multifaceted endeavor, costing billions of dollars, educating millions of people, and absorbing many working hours annually. Offerings range from remedial to postgraduate level management and technical courses. Corporate educators are fulfilling educational needs of nontraditional students, often before colleges and universities respond. These educational efforts could threaten the health and devalue the worth of higher education, but in fact, corporate education is compatible with--indeed complements--traditional higher education. Corporate education is structured similarly to collegiate instruction, facilitating transfer and student mobility and making possible a variety of cooperative efforts. Corporate programs have also opened channels of communication between business and schools concerning educational content and methods. The growth of corporate education is a stimulus to both internal collegiate debates and public policy-making. Many profitable educational ventures have begun with employers' recognition of their responsibilities to employees. Corporate education is well-established, a large enterprise, and increasingly professional. There is room for accommodation and cooperation that will serve both learners and their educational providers. (MSE)