Proceedings of an international conference on adult and external degree programs are presented. Selected papers are drawn from the areas of distance learning, support services, intra-institutional, curriculum, and teaching. They include: "Uses of Distance Education for Graduate Professional Degrees" (Ruth J. Person and Raymond Vondran); "Library Services of Off-Campus Programs" (William Aguilar, Marie Kascus, and Doris R. Brown); "Reducing Opposition in the University" (Joseph Baglio); "Integrating the Teaching of Thinking, Writing and Math Reasoning into Distance Learning" (Dan A. Davis); "The Capstone Student: Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges Intra-Institutionally" (Robert Carter); "Students: An Untapped Resource for Adult Programs" (Thomas E. McDuffie); "Quality in Off-Campus Videobased Graduate Technical Education" (Stanley A. Huffman and Harvey R. Stone); "Demonstration of Baccalaureate-Level Competency" (Thomas Taaffe and Lenore Burgard); "Building Faculty Consensus at a Distance" (Judy Deleau); "Non-Traditional Programs: The Programs People Love to Hate" (Colin Silverthorne); "Orienting the Adult Learner" (John C. Adams, Daniel Fulks, and Norma J. Strickland); "Overarching Themes: An Approach to Curriculum Design" (Sarah Evans); "Articulation of Proprietary Schools and College: A Model" (Terry Dunford); "Program Enhancement through Publications" (John Walter Mey); "Contextual Knowing: Teaching Strategies for Adults" (Donald B. Pribor); "Curricula for Mid-Career Professionals" (Merl Baker); "Research in Distance Learning" (Bobbi L. Kamil, Joyce Nielsen, James F. Niss, and Paul W. Grimes); "Marketing to Adult Learners" (Nancie Thole, Sharon O'Brien, and Susan English); "Advisement of Adult Learners: Research from the Field" (Jan-Marie Spanard and Ulestine Watson); "Curricular Innovation in Graduate Professional Education: The Balance with Liberal Learning" (Jean W. Knoll and Catherine Marineau); "Archiving as Means to Study Teaching" (Sharon E. Simone); "New Opportunities in Distance Learning" (Daniel Granger and Michael F. Beaudoin); "Teaching Adult Teachers about Teaching Adult Learners" (Jack Hirschfeld); "Silicon and Ivy: New Pathways to Higher Education" (William J. Seaton); "Models of Individualized Degree Programs" (Kent Warren); "External Degree Programs: Lessons from Experience" (Anna Bolling, Earl Hausle, and Karla M. Klinger); and Transcripting of Non-Traditional or Extra-Institutional Credits" (Marie Redwine). Author and institution indexes are provided. Contains references throughout. (KM)