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The authors argue that continuing education units, with their typical structures and functions, can help mega-universities meet the demands now facing them providing the skills needed in the economy, educating a multicultural adult population, and solving a host of social problems. Drawing on the literature of organizational theory and adult education, the writers view the strengths of continuing education units as: boundary-spanning functions and practices, functional overlap, external and internal partnership-building, and realistic budgeting and cost-recovery practices. Much attention is given to the impact of new partnerships on the traditional teaching, research, and service functions of the university. The articles, by five professors representing communications, adult education, and political science departments, and two continuing education administrators, are more even in quality and complementary in concept than is often true in edited works. The book will convince continuing educators of their value to the university, but it lacks adequate attention to the pressures that work against implementing its ideas. Of interest to faculty and administrators. R. W. Rohfeld; Syracuse University
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