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Tomasson, Robert E. – New York Times Sec 12, 1977
Continuing education programs are growing rapidly in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Here private universities are offering credit and noncredit courses off campus to take advantage of the influx of employees and their families accompanying corporate headquarters into the area. Discusses off-campus continuing education programs as they are being…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Enrollment, Extension Education
Karlen, Janice M. – 1980
The West Essex Extension Center (WEEC) provides a variety of educational services to adults in an off-campus setting. The typical WEEC credit student is a white, female, non-veteran, residing in Essex County, who is attending part-time and for the first time. There is equal probability that the student is married or single. The courses offered for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
Bittner, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Of the liberal movements dominating the thought of the world today, the greatest of all is the sweep of education. No phrase or dissertation can compass the entire scope or catch all the essential elements of the newer education that is shaping itself. But everywhere one direction is apparent: The trend of education is toward the people in mass…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Extension Education, Agricultural Colleges