Vita

Publications and Papers

Book

• Pittman, V. (1997). Surviving graduate school part time. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Edited Book

• Duning, B.S., & Pittman, V. (Eds.). (1996). Distance Education Symposium Three: Policy and administration. (Research Monographs No. 11). University Park, PA: American Center for the Study of Distance Education.

Anthology Chapters

• Edelson, P.J., & Pittman, V. ( In Press ). Historical Perspectives on Distance Education in the United States. In W.J. Bramble & S. Panda ( Eds. ) Economics of Distance and Online Learning: Theory, Practice and Research. Matwa, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
• (2003). Correspondence study in the American university: A second historiographic perspective. In M.G. Moore & W.G. Anderson (Eds.) Handbook of distance education (pp. 21-35). London and Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• (1999). The good, the bad, and the clueless: Night school in the academic mystery. In P. Nover, (Ed.), The great good place? A collection of essays on American and British college mystery novels (pp. 75-94). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
• (1996). Harper's headaches: Early policy issues in collegiate correspondence study. In B. S. Duning & V. Pittman (Eds.), Distance Education Symposium Three: Policy and administration (Research Monographs No. 11) (pp. 19-31). University Park, PA: American Center for the Study of Distance Education.
• (1995). Staffing and personnel procedures in continuing education units. In L.C. Rampp, W. R. Venable, & W. L. March (Eds.) Organization and administration of continuing education (pp. 335-362). Checotah, OK: AP Publications.
• (1993). Those who teach and those who do: Contemporary rivalries. In R. Mason & W. Young (Eds.), Challenge and change: Creating a new era of collaboration in adult continuing education (pp. 55-70). DeKalb, IL: LEPS Press.
• (1991). Academic credibility and the image problem: The quality issue in collegiate independent study. In B. Watkins & S. Wright (Eds.), Foundations of American distance education (pp. 109-134). Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.
• (1990). Correspondence study in the American university: An historiographic perspective. In M. G. Moore (Ed.), Contemporary issues in American distance education (pp. 66-80). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• (1989). What is the image of the field today? In A. Quigley (Ed.), Fulfilling the promise of adult and continuing education (New Directions for Continuing Education No. 44) (pp. 15-22). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• (1981). University continuing education. In L. A. Smith (Ed.), Career opportunities for historians (pp. 10-15). Pullman, WA: Phi Alpha Theta, Washington State University.

Journal Articles

• Edelson, P.J., & Pittman, V. (2001). E-Learning in the United States: New directions and opportunities for university continuing education. Indian Journal of Open Learning, 10 (2), 123-134.
• Pittman, V., & Osborn, R. (2000). Paragons of academic virtue: World War II veterans in the media of popular culture. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 48 (2), 21-27.
• Pittman, V. (1998). Low key leadership: Collegiate correspondence study and campus equivalence. American Journal of Distance Education, 12 (2), 36-45.
• (1992). Outsiders in academe: Night school in American fiction. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 40 (Spring), 8-13.
• (1992). The feds, the reds, and NUEA: A documentary reprise. Continuing Higher Education Review, 56 (Winter/Spring), 81-94.
• (1992). Amateurs, tough guys, and a dubious pursuit: Crime and correspondence study in popular culture. American Journal of Distance Education, 6 (1), 40-50.
• (1992). Evaluation and independent study. Adult Assessment Forum, 2 (Spring), 6-7,13.
• (1991). Distance education and diversity: Belaboring the obvious. Mountain Plains Journal of Adult Education, 19 (2), 31-35.
• (1991). Speaking personally -- An interview with Elizabeth Powell. American Journal of Distance Education, 5, 67-71.
• (1989). The practitioner as scholar: Publishing in continuing higher education. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 37, 24-27.
• (1988). To comfort and edify the unlearned: Thorstein Veblen, the higher learning, and university extension. Continuing Higher Education Review, 52, 183-187.
• (1988). Villainy, incompetence and foolishness: Correspondence study in fiction. Distance Education, 9, 225-233.
• (1987). An academic cottage industry: Publishing correspondence course study guides. Scholarly Publishing, 18, 197-203.
• (1987). The persistence of print: Correspondence study and the new media. American Journal of Distance Education, 1, 31-36. (Reprinted in Readings in the principles of distance education, pp. 37-42, by M. G. Moore & G. C. Clark, Eds., 1989, University Park, PA: American Center for the Study of Distance Education.)
• Pittman, V., & Theilmann, J. (1986). The administrator in fiction: Portrayals of higher education. Educational Forum, 50, 404-418.
• Pittman, V. (1986). Station WSUI and the early days of instructional radio. Palimpsest, 67, 38-52.
• (1985). Correspondence study: Still here after all these years. Continuum, 49, 189-193.
• Pittman, V., & Whipple, E. (1982). The inmate as college student. Lifelong Learning, 5, 4-5, 30.
• Pittman, V. (1981). Three crises: Senator Patrick A. McCarran in mid-career. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 24, 221-234.
• (1975). Gideon's Army and the Marshall Plan: An example of consensus. Research Studies, 43, 189-192.

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

• Pittman, V. (1991). Maintaining the low-tech option: The print component in distance education. In Proceedings of the First Forum on the Teaching of Distance Education (pp. 125-143). Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa.
• (1990). Adult students in film: Andragogy goes to Hollywood. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Adult Education Research Conference (pp. 153-158). Athens, GA: The University of Georgia.
• Pittman, V., & Ohliger, J. (1989). Adult education and works of the imagination. In C. Campbell Coggins (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Adult Education Research Conference (pp. 236-241). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Pittman, V., & Hagman, D. (1982). Irrelevance, cooperation, and unresolved issues: Interactive telecommunications and state coordination. In L. A. Parker & C. H. Olgren (Eds.),Teleconferencing and electronic communications: Applications, technologies, and human factors (pp. 269-274). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Extension.

Papers Presented

• Pittman, V.(2005, October ) Out on the Fringe: Helen Williams and Early Correspondence Study. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest History of Education Society, Chicago, IL.
• (2005, April ) Correspondence Study and the “Crime of the Century”: Helen Williams, Nathan Leopold, and the Statesville Correspondence School. Presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Educational Biography, San Antonio, TX.
• (2003, October) Working on the fringe: Inventing distance education in the American University. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Collegiate Independent Study, Sioux Falls, SD.
• (2002, November) Teaching on the margins: The University of Chicago and the origins of American distance education. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, Birmingham, AL.
• (2001, October) The good fight: Nineteenth century American external degree programs. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Adult Higher Education Alliance, Austin, TX.
• (2000, April) Crime in the community college mystery novel Presented at the 30th Conference of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA.
• (1999, July) Students and soldiers: Persistent conflict in military academy novels. Presented at the Popular Culture Association Special Meeting, Cambridge, UK.
• (1998, October) Blood on the prairies: The politics of fiber optics in Iowa. Presented at the Third Conference on Visions of the Future: Distance Learning for the 21st Century, Lubbock, TX.
• (1998, June). The devil in the details: Policy issues in distance education. Presented at the 1998 National Extension Telecommunications Conference, St. Louis, MO.
• (1996, March). A colorful century of correspondence course advertising. Presented at the 26th Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV.
• (1993, April). Distance education and academic credibility. Presented at the 80th Conference of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Boston, MA.
• (1992, April). A singular generation: Creating a renaissance in collegiate correspondence study. Presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Educational Biography, Chicago, IL.
• (1991, May). Rivalry for respectability: Collegiate and proprietary correspondence programs, 1892-1963. Presented at the Second Distance Education Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, PA.
• (1989, October).The arrival of instructional technology: Colleges and radio courses, 1923-1940. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Studies Association, Chicago.
• (1986, July).Pioneering instructional radio in the U.S.: Five years of frustration at the University of Iowa, 1925-1930. Presented at the First International Conference on the History of Adult Education, Oxford, UK. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 297 104)

Reviews

• Adult Education Quarterly
• Adult Learning
• The American Journal of Distance Education (3)
• The College Board Review
• Continuing Higher Education Review
• Continuum
• Convergence
• Educational Forum
• International Journal of Lifelong Education (3)
• Lifelong Learning (2)
• Phi Delta Kappan (2)
• Journalism Quarterly (3)
• Journalism History (2)
• History: Reviews of New Books (4)
• Georgia Historical Quarterly (2)
• Nevada Historical Quarterly
• Atlanta Historical Quarterly