The 68th Annual Meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education was themed "Continuing Education: Making a Difference." The conference sessions explored continuing education's ability to transform lives, communities, and institutions while producing a strong return on investment. Speakers reflected on continuing education's power, offered techniques for enhancing program outcomes and impacts, and provided insights into the future of higher education in a global society. Part I summarizes four primary addresses: (1) Refining Our Mission: Continuing Education's Role in Engagement, Outreach, and Public Service (Dennis Parks); (2) Continuing Education--Making a Difference (Brenda White Wright); (3) Swimming with Sharks: Risking a Strategic Future for Continuing Education (Sandy Shugart); and (4) California Higher Education Leadership Panel (Dianne G. Van Hook, Karen S. Haynes, and David Menninger). Part II, Concurrent Sessions, includes: (1) Motivating Your Students from Excuses--10 Key Strategies (Brenda White Wright); (2) Conducting a Feasibility Study: The Lucky 7 Reasons Why It Works (Sallie C. Dunphy); (3) Effective Strategies for Meeting the Learning Needs of Diverse Students (Nancy Gadbow); (4) An Analysis of the Impact of Politics, Policy and Socio-Economic Factors on CHE (Sandria Stephenson); (5) Surgical Technology: Where Demand Exceeds Supply (John Roche); (6) Building Partnerships in Distance Education: Across Campus, Nationally and Beyond (Daniel Butcher); (7) Fragile Partnership to Sustainable Alliance (Dana Reinert); (8) Innovative Strategies to Offer Non-Credit Certificate Programs (Fadia Alvic and Mary Jerger); (9) Marketing to Adult Learners (Steve Blumberg); (10) Continuing Education Leaders: Making a Difference in the US and Canada--A Comparative Look at CE Leadership and Authority (Raymond W. Campbell, Lorraine Carter, B. Christopher Dougherty, and Edna Farace-Wilson); (11) Building an Online Faculty Community through Continuous Faculty Development (Cynthia Trent and Bob Boston); (12) Calling All Partners: One University/Four Community Partnerships (Byron Bond, Scott Sherry, Teresa Gleisner, Terry Gray, and Cindy Peck); (13) Elements of Successful Off-Campus Programs (Barbara Charlton, Amy Johnson, Deborah Joyner, and Tamara Mottern); (14) Meeting Critical Workforce Development Needs with Online Graduate Programs (Barbara J. Hoskins); (15) Sustainability and Continuing Education: Doing Well While Doing Good (Clare Roby); (16) The Ten Most Significant Emerging Trends in CHE--A National Perspective (Thomas W. Fuhr and Carol B. Aslanian); (17) Multifaceted Learning: Making a Difference (Denise M. Hart and Jerry Hickerson); (18) Providing Services for Continual Learners at a Historically Black College or University (Esther Powell); (19) Writing for Publication (Barbara E. Hanniford); (20) Implementing Highly Profitable GRE, GMAT, LSAT, ACT, SAT, PSAT, MCAT, GED, and PRAXIS Preparation Programs Designed to Raise Test Scores, Assess Improvements, and Increase Enrollments (Bradford L. Bruce); (21) The ABCs of Certificate Programs or I Love It When a Plan Comes Together (Jo Lynn Feinstein); (22) Making a Difference by Covering the Distance: Best Practices in Web-Based Learning (Mary Rose Grant); (23) Take the Lead in Faculty Mentorship & Evaluation to Make the Difference in Academic Quality (Roxanne Gonzales, Frank Incalcaterra, and Marthann Schulte); (24) Launching and Sustaining a Degree Program for Adults (Skip Parks and Dan Dowdy); (25) Assessment: The Change Agent in a Distributed-Campus System (Karen R. Graham and Laurie Dodge); and (26) Taking Risk to Win--Both Professionally and Personally (Pamela S. Cutright). The final section of the proceedings includes business meeting information in 21 appendixes. [For the 2005 proceedings, see ED493577.]