Discusses the changing work ethic and the role of the public schools, the junior colleges, and the four-year colleges in educating adults for careers. (Author/SP)

The role of the university in providing leadership to a changing society is discussed. It is proposed that the university has a limited but important purpose of learning and teaching, scholarship and research, and that seeking to lead or change or improve the world should be done only within the setting of education. Although individuals can act…

The authors discuss adult education within higher education, the role of the college and university continuing education division and the division's functions in adult education credit courses. The paper is intended to clarify the perspectives and responsibilities and to present the appropriate administrative role of continuing education…

The role of higher education in the community in India is examined with special emphasis on the need for adult education and direct social involvement. Reasons for social involvement are addressed, along with the role education should play in promoting justice, and the need for new educational methods. (LBH)

By adopting new techniques of recurrent and nonformal education, colleges and universities can design programs responsive to the problems of social disorganization and isolation, low productivity, and unemployment. (LBH)

The idea of education as a tool for continuing development and enrichment poses major challenges for higher education that cannot be sidestepped. (LBH)

This report focuses on the history and development of community college functions. The continuing education, community service, and adult education functions have shown significant progress over the past 40 years. (CA)

Just as the mission of a community college cannot be implemented without liberal education, neither can the missions of AAC be successful without community college involvement and participation. An increasing number of college students seeking baccalaureate degrees are beginning their college education in community colleges. (Author/LBH)

A dynamic community economic development and education process has emerged in Missouri. This effort is bringing about changed awareness and attitudes as well as developing skills and community self-help actions as a result of collaboration between communities, Extension specialists, and the University of Missouri-Columbia. One of the institutions…

Discusses the trend in the United States toward expanding continuing education for adults, describes planning processes at the University of Wisconsin to illustrate policy issues facing all states, and notes difficulties in accomplishing this expansion. Examines nine specific issues and presents differing views of the university role. (MF)

Analyzes the demographics, motivation, and environment of the lifelong learner. Offers potential responses of community college educators to meet their needs. Calls upon community colleges to fulfill a genuine social responsibility to lessen the gap between adults with formal education and those without it. (JM)

Based on a nationwide study of the fiscal and administrative factors responsible for the maintenance of exemplary linkages between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors and community colleges, this monograph presents guidelines for the development of cooperative relations between CETA and Maryland's community colleges.…

Although junior colleges were originally established to provide the first two years of collegiate instruction, the mission of today's community college includes providing not only transfer education, but also certificate or associate degree vocational programs, adult continuing education, and community services. Therefore, the community college…

The university and the inner city is examined in this collection of papers. Chapters include: Establishing an Urban Commuter University: The Need for Community (Reynold Feldman and Barbara Hursh); Adult and Community Education: Mobilizing the Resources of the City (Roger Hiemstra); The Arts and Humanities in an Urban Environment (Neil Rudin);…

Recommendations for national action in higher education are offered by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The joint policy statement focuses on issues that the federal government needs to consider including: how to broaden educational opportunity…