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This article presents information on pilot projects in parent education that are scheduled to start in the evening colleges of five universities in the U.S. in February 1953. This experiment, sponsored jointly by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults is a phase of the expanded parent education program of the National Congress. The Center is a research agency established by the Committee on Liberal Education of the Association of University Evening Colleges with a grant from the Fund for Adult Education, an independent agency of the Ford Foundation. In general terms, the aims of the program are to encourage evening colleges to meet the expressed needs of parents in their communities, to foster information parent education courses designed for laymen, to experiment with the cooperative planning of such courses by lay and professional people and to bring into parent education programs more fathers and mothers of college students. Preliminary planning was done by a committee of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. A conference was then held at each college to select courses to be offered, set fees, content, methods and scope of each course planned.