Discusses the Public Broadcasting Service's failure to provide critical support for telecourse users. Announcement of telecourse schedules too late for college planning requirements, increased need for delayed telecourse playback, increased fees, exclusive course contracts, and telecourses inappropriate as required or elective courses are…

Reviews the outcomes of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Adult Learning Service's first year of operation. Discusses PBS's efforts to improve its service to public television stations, colleges, and adult learners. Highlights activities to overcome problems related to timing, course selection, pricing, and exclusivity. (AYC)

Describes characteristics of continuing education agencies (resource and organizational insecurity, need for flexibility, autonomy), type of cooperation (cosponsorship, referral, donation, coordination), essential resources (money, learners, staff, information, domain, power), hidden costs (time, dislocation, goal dislocation, goal displacement,…

This handbook is intended to help adult education, community and junior colleges, community education, and park and recreation agencies develop effective interagency cooperative programs to provide more and better services at all levels. It includes the national joint position statement of the National Joint Continuing Steering Committee (NJCSC)…

The president of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA) answers some basic questions about accreditation, describes what COPA is and does, and notes how it relates to other organizations involved in or affected by accreditation. He calls COPA the "balance wheel" meshing many accreditation forces for smooth operation. (MF)

Given that the society has not been able to redistribute financial support away from day and sheltered programs, it needs to cut off the supply of consumers. To make this happen, Rusch and Braddock offered two recommendations in their study: (1) All students must leave high school either competitively employed or admitted to a postsecondary…

The Extension organization faces a new challenge to develop and maintain partnerships at the local level, bringing together people, programs, and resources. Although the Extension Service already operates under the concept of a partnership between federal, state, and local governments, the federal partner has created a vacuum in this three-way…

Relationships need to be built between the military training system and vocational education. Vocational education, or specialized skill training as the military terms it, provides the skills and knowledge needed in specific military occupations. It has two parts--initial training and progression training. A process called Instructional Systems…

Sources of the concern about the coordination of higher education are examined, and solutions to achieve the elusive goal of "effective coordination" are suggested. The following topics are discussed: (1) "Why State Higher Education Boards: How Have They Changed?"; (2) "What Are the Different Types of State Higher Education Boards?" (advisory…

This book was compiled to provide examples of partnerships between education and economic development agencies and to reinforce, with statistics, the importance of entrepreneurship in the U.S. economy. The first chapter, "Contributions of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Education to Economic Development," by E. Edward Harris,…

A project was conducted to determine problems or barriers prohibiting awarding credit for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) training in Virginia. Potential solutions and strategies for their implementation were to be identified. A variety of methods were used to obtain information required to produce a Plan of Action that presents…

Examines the involvement of the federal government, the states, and accrediting agencies in determining the eligibility of postsecondary institutions for federal funds. Highlights a national survey of government and agency officials which investigated preferences for eligibility criteria and agency/government roles and relationships. (DMM)

The Council of Chief State School Officers' position paper on disabled students beyond school distinguishes among three groups of students who require minimal, interim, or continuing support to make the transition to work or postsecondary education and independent living. Obstacles to a smooth transition are noted, as well as federal efforts to…

Increasing demands for human services and current government fiscal policies may make volunteerism the major way of improving the individual living conditions and society as a whole. Extension agents are in the front line of persons capable of developing volunteerism at the local level. They have a direct link with local citizens and are familiar…

One of 10 studies commissioned to investigate research needs and to stimulate planning activities, this paper concerns the structures, processes, interrelationships, governance, finance, and workforces of institutions and organizations as they are engaged in international and second language education. After noting the field of instruction and…