Continuing education in colleges and universities
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities
By: Ronald G. White, Frank R. DiSilvestro, editors
Series: New directions for adult and continuing eduction -- no. 140; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 140.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781118834879
Subjects: Continuing education; Higher Education; Adult education
Description: These are times of great opportunity as well as challenge for continuing education (CE) programs in colleges and universities. While lifelong learning remains central to CE's mission, means of promoting and delivering adult education programs through distance and online learning are undergoing continuous transformation by novel information technologies. Within institutions, CE units are increasingly collaborating with academic departments. In addition, demographic shifts have resulted in new audiences and types of programs offered, both credit and non-credit. Schools - especially state-supported ones - have been pressured to increase their participation in economic development. All these changes carry administrative considerations. This volume suggests perspectives and solutions for the challenges that must be successfully confronted by today's CE programs and the professionals who develop them. -- from back cover.
Notes: "Winter 2013."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The dynamic flux of continuing higher education: redefining the new roles, responsibilities, and expectations / Lisa R. Braverman; title: Current trends in adult degree programs: how public universities respond to the needs of adult learners / Angela Gast; title: Partnerships with academic departments / Anthony M. English; title: From access to excess: changing roles and relationships for distance education, continuing education, and academic departments in American universities / Judy Copeland Ashcroft; title: Growing importance of prior learning assessment in the degree-completion toolkit / Rebecca Klein-Collins, Judith B. Wertheim; title: Trends and considerations affecting noncredit programs / Nelson C. Baker; title: Role of the community college in economic development / Rebecca A. Nickoli; title: Continuing higher education and older adults: a growing challenge and golden opportunity / Frank R. DiSilvestro; title: Preparing marketing for the future: strategic marketing challenges for continuing education / James Fong; title: The road ahead: challenges and opportunities / Ronald G. White.