Leaders of university continuing education units frequently dedicate significant energy to managing relationships between their units and senior university administrators. Many CJUCE readers know of cases where a particularly sympathetic (or unsympathetic) university president or provost has substantially changed the trajectory of a continuing…

This article explores claims made on websites of CAUCE members about the purpose of university continuing education. CAUCE members often claim a role in addressing the needs or goals of learners seeking professional development, personal enrichment, or the furthering of knowledge and skills. They claim to deliver programs and services that promote…

In this paper, we describe the outreach and engagement movement in the United States and explore the implications of this movement for university continuing education units in Canada. Across the United States, major universities have adopted the vocabulary of "outreach and engagement" to foster a shift in the relationships of those universities…

The Saskatchewan Heart Health Program's approach to assessment of the learning needs of health promotion contacts included developing of survey instruments based on think-tank discussions and profiling of the target audience. The approach blended formal and informal, qualitative and quantitative methods and included collaboration with learners.…

Compares three world views upon which social sciences research has been based: positivism, interpretive humanism, and radical structuralism. Outlines challenges to the assumptions of these world views posed by postmodernism and feminism. Presents questions with which to reframe continuing education research. (SK)

In postmodern societies, oppression shifts from centralized, explicitly coercive forms to decentered, subtle processes, inducing individuals to regulate themselves. Foucault's concept of power can assist adult educators in moving from empowering individuals to escape or transform oppressive structures toward helping them resist the disciplining of…