Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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I I Confornices enable partlcl ianls to benefit from Ideas of others 19 New developments are ex dained at evening technical classes

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Con tinu ing Education In fulfillment of its responsibility as a I ancl Grant college, Penn State has expanded its Con- tinuing Education Services to include an enroll- ment of more than 80.000 persons. '11k? University arranges conferences, work- shops and seminars for persons in business and professions interested in keeping posted in their fields. Management and executive conferences arc held for those who have advanced into new |X sitions of supervision and leadership. Some of this year's special interest groups in- cluded: a leadership training program (or teach- ers and social workers in Project Head Start: workshops in environmental health and related housing codes, highway construction, air pollu- tion and sewage systems; an executive develop- ment institution for Pennsylvania police; and an information institution for urban administrators. Continuing Education Services are represent- ed throughout the Commonwealth with 17 dis- trict offices. Credit and non-credit courses are provided l»v Continuing Education in more than fiO Pennsylvania towns. Students unable to attend Commonwealth Campuses may take certain un- dergraduate courses at home and Inter apply the credits toward degree requirements. Advanced level courses are available for teachers working toward State certification or graduate degrees. Continuing Education, housed in the new J. Orvis Keller building Conference! Center, also extends its sendees through correspondence courses, the University educational television station and a rental service of educational films. 18 Policemen are among many gaining from Penn Slate conference programs

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Cooperative Extension Sm it e auls Pennsylvania craftsmen in rebirth of crafts industry in State Agricultural and Home Economics Extension The Nation's first Linear Programming Service, a system for educating rural families against radioactive fallout; Operation Expansion, designed to stimulate the growth of •l-ll Chios; and an interstate beautifica- tion program called Plan and Plant for Beauty are projects initiated this year by the Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Service. Aiding Pennsylvanians for 53 years, the extension service branches out into every county in the State. It provides each countv with a professional stall of agricultural agents and home economists, whose job it is to rcsjxmd to the county’s educational needs in the areas of agriculture, home economics, and the related fields of community, home and farm lib . Plant clippings are collected far analysis in lulmratory 20 Lj