university extension

noun

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

The other two subjects were the relation of technical schools to the universities, and university extension.

God knows what made me treat you to a university-extension lecture.

While university extension was groping aimlessly about, it came to the attention of one of the leading educators of our country.

Her library, it is said, would be taken for that of a university extension lecturer on literature.

Many of the small colleges are now engaging in university extension as an inexpensive means of advertising themselves.

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