Explores the history of university extension in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century through the growth of the adult education movement in the 1950s and 1960s, change of the Canadian Association of Directors of Extension and Summer Schools into the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education in 1974, to the challenges of the 1980s…

A survey of 60 adult students participating in university preparation courses found a weak positive correlation between importance of personal goals and success in achieving them. Of 193 participants in the course and 193 controls, controls took more courses, possibly because those who are aware of their anxiety about college consciously choose a…

In a survey, 50 continuing education faculty expressed concern about setting the right climate in the first session of a course. They attempt to balance students' needs and concerns with course and content issues. Although they wanted to create the proper social climate, they were only moderately concerned about "getting acquainted." (SK)

Surveys and interviews with Halifax businesses and with microcomputer teaching institutes indicated the following: over 70% of businesses offer incentives for computer training, 75% of service industries and 45% of other businesses are concerned about availability of relevant training, and a large gap exists between training in specific packages…

When a male student enrolled, a university program designed to prepare counselors for helping women experienced problems in terms of other students' feelings of safety and trust in sharing experiences, qualitative differences in topics discussed, and use of experiential learning drawn from women's life experiences. (SK)

Describes the role of judges in Canadian society and the notion of judicial independence that produces complexities for educators. Looks at the characteristics and working environment of judges and describes the part played by the existing agencies involved in judicial education. Suggests potential roles for continuing education units in…

Describes the challenges involved in taking distance out of the context of institutions and applying it to community development in Canada and Southeast Asia. Discusses resources facilitators used: technologies, theater and communication techniques, and the Canadian, Thai, and Filipino participants themselves. (SK)

The Antigonish Movement, Farm Radio Forum, and Centre for Community Studies were three Canadian community development programs that supported adult education's social change mission. Current extension practice focuses on cost recovery and marketing courses to those who can pay; these historical examples show a way to renew the mission and vision…

Interviews with nine clerical/support staff in a university extension department show how higher education has neglected valuable constituency of learners by restrictively defining and poorly supporting professional development for support staff. As a learning organization, the university should encourage and develop all employees. (SK)

An innovative professional master's of continuing education program at the University of Calgary took five years to be established. It had to overcome differing views of faculty, the opposition of the dean of education, and other types of political and philosophical resistance. (SK)

Responses from 43.6% of 250 dentists and 66.9% of 166 dental hygienists surveyed displayed some support for mandatory continuing education and sharp disagreement over the need for a bachelor's degree. Hygienists in nontraditional careers supported it, whereas those in traditional practice and dentists were less favorable. (SK)

Subtle signs of change to which continuing higher education must respond include the global interconnected network; replacement of linear, top-down thinking with interrelatedness and connection; human potential for higher levels of complexity and integration; the search for meaning and significance; and development of community--working and…