Wednesday, October 28, 2009
K-State Hosts Higher Education Dialogue
Kansas State University’s Division of Continuing Education hosted the Kansas dialogue workshop “Difficult Dialogues, Rewarding Solutions” on September 14th in Manhattan, Kansas, sponsored by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC). The session was facilitated by Chris Rasmussen, MHEC Vice President for Research and Policy Analysis. The dialogue from the meeting will lead to the development of strategies for Kansas to address the difficult issues of expanding higher education while keeping it affordable to students, families, and state governments.
Caption: Sue Maes, Dean of the Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University, Kurt Schulz, President of Kansas State University, and Lana Oleen, MHEC Commissioner, lead discussions at the gathering held at K-State.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Howard University closes
its continuing education unit.Peggy Berry informed ACHE today that "Howard University has decided to discontinue its continuing education program (Howard University Continuing Education, HUCE) effective October 31, 2009. " Institutions sometimes think they can just absorb all that continuing education does within other units, but those units typically exist to serve only the traditional campus students. The adults, the nontraditional students, the distant students--they either get served poorly or they migrate to other colleges and universities.
Adult Education Research Grant Opportuity
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center invites applicants for adult education research grants
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Library invites applicants to its Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Research Grants-in-Aid Program, now in its third year. As much as $5,000 of grants-in-aid will be awarded in 2010 to researchers in the history and practice of adult education who wish to use the collections in SCRC's Charters Library. The actual amount of each award will depend upon the scope of the research outlined in the applicant's proposal.
The Charters Library of Resources for the Educators of Adults (http://scrc.syr.edu/charterslibrary ) is the world's most comprehensive collection of English-language materials in the field of adult and continuing education. Among the resources available to researchers are: more than 55 discrete manuscript collections, 2,100 books, 50 professional journals, 220 newsletters, 400 sound recordings, 100 video-recordings, 10,000 photographs and some 2,800 master's theses and dissertations in the field. Online finding aids to the manuscript collections are available on SCRC's website at http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm#adult_ed .
With more than 145,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold Von Ranke. Holdings are particularly strong in the 20th century; they include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White, and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations such as avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures, and classes and offers fellowships and internships in library instruction and conservation.
The application deadline is December 1, 2009, and winners will be announced by January 15, 2010. To apply, submit a letter of intent outlining the proposed research topic, including the term of stay, proposed budget, a current résumé, and the name, with contact information, of one professional reference to:
Mary Beth Hinton
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-2010
Phone: 315-443-9763
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Library invites applicants to its Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Research Grants-in-Aid Program, now in its third year. As much as $5,000 of grants-in-aid will be awarded in 2010 to researchers in the history and practice of adult education who wish to use the collections in SCRC's Charters Library. The actual amount of each award will depend upon the scope of the research outlined in the applicant's proposal.
The Charters Library of Resources for the Educators of Adults (http://scrc.syr.edu/charterslibrary ) is the world's most comprehensive collection of English-language materials in the field of adult and continuing education. Among the resources available to researchers are: more than 55 discrete manuscript collections, 2,100 books, 50 professional journals, 220 newsletters, 400 sound recordings, 100 video-recordings, 10,000 photographs and some 2,800 master's theses and dissertations in the field. Online finding aids to the manuscript collections are available on SCRC's website at http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm#adult_ed .
With more than 145,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold Von Ranke. Holdings are particularly strong in the 20th century; they include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White, and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations such as avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures, and classes and offers fellowships and internships in library instruction and conservation.
The application deadline is December 1, 2009, and winners will be announced by January 15, 2010. To apply, submit a letter of intent outlining the proposed research topic, including the term of stay, proposed budget, a current résumé, and the name, with contact information, of one professional reference to:
Mary Beth Hinton
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-2010
Phone: 315-443-9763
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