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.
Unfortunately, this may be a growing trend with the cuts to higher education and the economy still not stabilized. CE tends to be the area that has the least vocal support so the outrage is kept silent. Too many institutions don't realize that the CE department can be the way students come to understand that a university education is for them.
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It is a growing trend. In the last 6 months, Metropolitan College in New Orleans has shuttered, and there are stories coming out of Georgia that they're losing their CE units. The demand for education via non-tradiational delivery methods only grows, however.
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