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university extension

American  

noun

  1. a system by which an institution provides educational programs, as evening classes, for students otherwise unable to attend.


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So do Health Canada and university extension services.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021

She called university extension offices, a vital source of guidance for farmers, but said she never got any help.

From New York Times • May 22, 2021

Unlike those early successful farmers, farmers left behind to pursue agricultural gains had none of the socioeconomic advantages and fewer of the political connections to university extension groups, shops, or development programs.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2019

In some cases, though, university extension programs have started working with Silicon Valley startups to build new types of online credentials.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2017

It promises well for the future of university extension to record that some of America's most popular and celebrated professors have added to their already heavy duties the burdens of some line of extension teaching.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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