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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Example Sentences

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

In England, with a homogeneous labor class, active in politics, maintaining university extension courses, spending their union's income on intricate betterment schemes, and wealthy in tradition—there a rise in wages meant an increase in welfare.

From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Parker, Cornelia Stratton