Title: Civil Defense Announcements, 1956, 1964
Biographical Note
Organized in 1933, the Division of University Extension was responsible for the extension of the University's education resources to qualified persons who were not students in residence.1 It conducted extramural courses,2 short courses3, correspondence courses, conferences and other programs.4 The Division did not include the Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics. It drew from faculties of all University instructional units, but maintained its own administrative staff.5 In 1973, the division was renamed the Office of Continuing Education and Public Service and a University Continuing Education Office was established.6
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 37th Report, September 26, 1933, p. 374-75
2. Ibid., 39th Report, May 27, 1936, p. 754.
3. History, the University of Illinois Division of University Extension, 1933-68, A Progress Report, Helen Farlow, p. 9
4. Ibid., p. 5.
5. Ibid., p. 5.
6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 57th Report, July 18, 1973, p. 326.
