The author's father left school aged 13 at the start of the Great Depression. When he finally found work the wealth of educational opportunity he encountered inspired him with a lifelong love of learning. He signed up for evening classes and loved anything and everything to do with what he proudly called self-improvement. As a novice to retirement…

Traces the history of Evening Colleges in New South Wales back to the Night Schools of 1864. Describes the nature and scope of the present-day colleges and the impact of community-based management on their development and ability to respond to the learning needs of the communities they serve. (JOW)

The author discusses the mathematics background of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students and asks what math tools are necessary for an MBA. While she finds useful the ability to deal with linear and quadratic equations; interest, depreciation, and growth rates; and word problems, she concludes that calculus is of little use apart from…

Friends University in Kansas turned its program around by offering more programs during the evening. Success of the adult programming is attributed to business-industry support, pioneering attitudes of faculty and administrators, and adult-learner population needing flexible scheduling. (JOW)

Discusses the predominance of adolescents in many Soviet night schools. Describes the characteristics of difficult adolescents and their deviant behavior. Identifies the need for individual work with adolescent students that takes account of their personal characteristics. Suggests a need for better teacher training in dealing with difficult…

Presents conversations and writing from a basic writing night course indicating students' improvement through peer interaction and the infusion of grammar on an as needed basis. (HTH)

Articles are entitled "Continuing Education in Developed Soviet Society,""Problems of Continuing Education under Modern Conditions of Social Progress and the Scientific-Technological Revolution,""Preparing Pupils for Continuing Education," and "The Evening School in the System of Continuing Education." (CK)

Strategies for recruiting students into undergraduate nursing programs are discussed, including high school honors programs, high school independent study with nurse researchers, direct admission into a nursing major, more flexible curricula, and cooperative and evening programs. (MSE)

Hierarchy among Boston's law schools (tracking between schools of different prestige levels) is assessed using a social history. Implications for stratification within the contemporary legal profession are also considered. Law graduates are channeled toward those branches of the profession that match their law school's standing in the hierarchy.…

Education is one of the social institutions manipulated by New Zealand's European people to establish and perpetuate a painfully fragmented society. Po Ako is a community-based educational project where immigrant teachers, parents, and children from Tonga educate themselves at night about their own culture to better understand themselves and their…

States that part-time university students are discriminated against, most importantly by the students' lack of contact with full-time faculty. Explains the various reasons why full-time teachers cannot or do not want to teach evening classes of adult part-time students and offers some alternatives to alter such attitudes. (MF)

This is the sixth of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…

This is the second of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…

This is the first of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice ln the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…

This is the seventh of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit liberal education offered by colleges and…