2.08 Extension/Continuing Education Services
A. Extension/Continuing Education Services Defined
Extension/continuing education services are those activities by which
the instruction, research, and service functions of an institution are
shared with citizens of the state who are not enrolled as regular students.
These services include such things as off-campus courses and lectures,
correspondence study, consultant services, surveys, conferences, and non-credit
workshops (both on and off-campus), radio, television, and publication
to support and supplement the aforementioned activities.
B. Courses
Courses approved by the Board for on-campus instruction may be offered
off-campus through extension/continuing education without additional approval
by the Board. No center for off-campus extension/continuing education
activities will be established except on prior notice to the State Extension
and Continuing Education Council and with approval by the Board of Regents.
C. Cooperation
Existing cooperation among the three institutions in extension/continuing
education services will be broadened and made more continuous. The cooperative
efforts and practices will be reviewed periodically and formally by the
Board to the end that maximum extension/continuing education services
will be rendered to the state and its citizens at comparable levels of
cost to communities, organizations, industries, or individuals served.
The extension/continuing education services of the three institutions
will be available statewide. The three extension/continuing education
services, through planned cooperative effort, will seek to give the people
of Iowa the best possible service at the lowest cost.
D. New Services
State or federal enactments, as well as requests from other sources,
which suggest opportunities for new extension/continuing education services
for which campus resources are not available will be brought to the Board
for decision concerning:
1) the creation of campus resources, and
2) the campus or campuses on which the resources are to be established.
E. General
Each of the three institutions of higher learning will have extension/continuing
education services whose activities will be reviewed periodically and
formally by the Board.
The extension/continuing education services of each institution will
be related to on-campus functions authorized by the Board. Special competencies
in extension/continuing education services are to be encouraged at each
institution.
The extension/continuing education services of the three institutions
of higher learning should be provided to the people of the state to the
maximum extent consistent with the availability of resources at the three
institutions and resident instruction and research commitments of each
institution.
Except as herein provided, extension/continuing education services that
have been authorized by the Board are expected to adjust to changing times
and conditions without continual referral to the Board for approval. (October
4-6, 1962, pp. 179-181; April 10-11, 1975, p. 622)
See also University Services Board of Regents, State of Iowa,
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