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Johnson, Donald A. – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
The Quad-Cities Graduate Study Center in Rock Island, Illinois, a voluntary, publicly funded, academic consortium, is described. It was incorporated as an experimental project to determine if pooling institutional resources were academically, financially, and administratively possible. It is now a model of inter-institutional cooperation providing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consortia, Continuing Education Centers, Cooperative Programs
Download full textMaes, Sue C. – 1981
Operating under a grant, the University for Man (UFM) in Manhattan, Kansas, tested the transferability of the UFM free university/community education model using four existing statewide delivery systems (public libraries, a private college consortium, a state cooperative extension service, an office of rural affairs) in five states: Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Consortia, Delivery Systems
Lent, Richard – 1974
The University of Mid-America's (UMA) goals and plans are reviewed in this evaluation planning paper. Several issues effecting the overall shape of external evaluation activities over a five-year period are described. Focus in this report is on UMA's philosophical orientation and future plans, the rationale for the open learning approach, UMA open…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consortia, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
PDF pending restorationAlberta Dept. of Education, Barrhead. Alberta Distance Learning Centre. – 1991
Due to its sparse, rural population and long distances, Alberta province (Canada) has been providing education at a distance since 1923 for students in grades 1 through 12 and adults who wish to complete their high school education through correspondence. This handbook is published as a resource for Alberta schools that offer distance learning…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks
Furlong, Thomas, Ed.; And Others – 1977
On February 20-22, 1977 the Florida Postsecondary Education Commission, with several other agencies, sponsored a conference at which representatives of many states and agencies could share state policy and planning strategies accommodating federal legislation. The report is in four sections, and the contents include: (1) lifelong learning and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Anderson, Clinton L. – 1997
This book traces the history of the Servicemembers Opportunity College (SOC) program, which allows military personnel to obtain civilian education at more that 1,000 designated community colleges, technical institutes, and four-year institutions nationwide. Among the topics discussed in this history of the SOC program's development as the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Consortia
