This article is a follow-up to a previous article, "Six Ways to Increase Enrollments at an Extended Campus," published in this journal (vol. 17, no. 4, winter 2015), wherein a seventh best practice to increase course offerings and increase enrollments at an extended campus is presented. This best practice seeks to identify those areas of…

After 1880, the Upstate of South Carolina found itself in the midst of a textile boom. As families migrated from the mountains and failing farms to find employment in one of the many textile mills, relations re-established roots within the confines of the company-owned mill village. Paternalism, the absence of child labor laws, and the lack of…

The results of a survey of students in the Division of Extended Services at Tennessee Tech related to evening services are presented. (HMD)

Learning is approached in these sessions as a lifetime process and not as something occurring over a definable, limited period of time. Certain ideas; however, have served to keep the evening college from realizing its full potential: (1) the notion that evening programs should be circumscribed the way regular programs are, and (2) negative…

THIS REPORT ON ADULT EDUCATION AND EXTENSION PROGRAMS IN ALL PHASES OF CALIFORNIA'S SYSTEM OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION TRACES THE EFFORTS TO COORDINATE CONTINUING EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA SINCE THE COORDINATING COUNCIL AUTHORIZED THE STATE COMMITTEE ON CONTINUING EDUCATION IN 1963. THE JUNIOR COLLEGES CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE GREATEST NUMBER OF ADULT…

A HIGH DROPOUT RATE BETWEEN THE SPRING AND FALL SEMESTERS OF 1967 AT THE DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, PROMPTED THIS STUDY TO DETERMINE THE REASONS FOR WITHDRAWAL. THE STUDY POPULATION WAS LIMITED TO ON CAMPUS SPRING SEMESTER ENROLLEES SEEKING UNIVERSITY CREDIT. A 16 QUESTION SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 1,090…

Discusses outreach education, or education designed for students who are not normally reached in regular daytime campus credit work. (Author)

Describes the complete program of extension education offered by the American University in Cairo. (AN)

The aim of this handbook is to provide a quick reference source for a number of different publics. It should be of regular assistance to adult and other educators, personnel officers and social workers, whose advice and help is constantly being sought about the availability of adult education facilities in their own, or in other States. The aim in…

The effectiveness of instruction at the Jordan and Lakewood Extension Campuses of Long Beach City College (LBCC) was examined by questionnaire and interview. A 4-item questionnaire was used for the extension students and a 7-item one for the evening high school graduates. Interviews were conducted with 25 former students (on the quality and…

Describes a program of out-of-school computer classes intended for testing out various approaches to teaching children about computers. Program began with teacher training in LOGO computer language, followed by team-taught extracurricular computer electives. Program is self-supporting and rapidly expanding. (TE)

As evening and extension programs grow, colleges must be concerned with making better use of part-time faculty and responding to their many unique problems. (RN)

A survey of students taking University of London extramural courses was conducted to (1) gain demographic information about students and find why they attend the courses and (2) find out how students heard about the classes, thereby assessing the effectiveness of the departmental prospectus. (CT)

The College Marie-Victorin and La Presse, a French Canadian daily newspaper, have formed a partnership to offer distance education. Five stages have occurred in the transition from programmed instruction to extension courses. Programmed instruction offered by the college has been followed by four stages of courses offered by the college in…