Continuing Higher Education: In Retrospect and toward the Future. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Association for Continuing Higher Education (50th, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 30-November 2, 1988).

Overview & Synopsis

These proceedings contain addresses and summaries of presentations made in concurrent sessions at the annual meeting. The addresses are: Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE)--Then and Now: What Our Past Has To Tell Us about Our Future" (Nelcamp and others); "A Conversation with Alex Haley" (Haley); "Luncheon Address of President-Elect" (Mills); "A Challenge for the 90's: Increased Educational Opportunities for Adults" (Mattfeld); and "Future Directions for Adult Continuing Education" (Knox). The concurrent sessions are: "The Past Persistent: Profiles of Nontraditional Women Students, 1900-1940" (Geyer); "From State to College to Classroom: A Multimedia Approach to Gender Equity and Multicultural Awareness" (Dumais); "A Developing Market for Continuing Education: The Reserve and On-Base Military Education" (Watt, Kelly); "Assessing the Impact of Adult Continuing Education on Economic Development" (Moore); "On the Edge: Should Continuing Education Remain Marginal?" (Marksbury, Foster); "The Conference Planner as Entrepreneur: Programming for Success" (Harris, Vonler); "Addressing the Career Change Needs of Adult Students" (Rowe and others); "Recruiting and Retaining...Faculty" (Huebner); "How to Exchange Information Electronically with Other Continuing Education Professionals" (Gadbow); "Noncredit Continuing Education: Today's Challenges Create Tomorrow's Traditions" (Long); "Professional Development Programs for Teachers: An Applied Model" (Infantino); "The Winning Formula" (Yoder); "Accommodating Older Persons to Higher Education" (Cortright);"Educating Internally: Strategies for Achieving a More Central Role for Continuing Education in College and University Affairs" (Fey); "Contract Programs: Focus on Indirect Costs, Overhead, and Profit" (Long); "The Role of Higher Education in Rural Economic Development" (Caskey and others); "National Continuing Education Programming: The Perils and the Rewards" (Nance, Cowan); "A Model Program for Rural Women: Now and the Future" (Barnes); "Writing for Publication" (Shields); "Inside Education: College in Prison" (Danglade); "How Americans in Transition Study for College Credit" (Brickell); "Building a Campus Consensus for Continuing Education" (Norris, Roughton); "Student Services in Continuing Education" (Perillo, Glines); "Applications of New Technology" (Bridwell, Lott); "What Marketing Psychology Means to Brochure Design" (Foster); "Continuing Education for Business: Issues, Threats, and Opportunities" (Falk); and "Demonstrations of New Technology: The Optel System and Satellite Delivery Systems" (Phillips and others). Highlights of business meetings are also presented. Appendixes include reports of the various committees. (YLB)