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University extension

noun

An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students. Synonyms: extension, extension service.

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... periods, during which either the cattle or the trees are getting the best of it; and, indeed, without such provision we should have neither the one nor the other. At this moment the cattle, doubtless, are in the ascendant, and if university extension proceeds much farther, we shall assuredly have no more Mrs. Newtons and Mrs. Bromfields; but whatever is is best, and, on the whole, I should propose to let things find pretty ...

— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... great proportion of the literature relating to Kepler is German, but he has his place in the histories of astronomy, from Delambre and the more modern R. Wolfs "Geschichte" to those of A. Berry, "History of Astronomy" (University Extension Manuals, Murray, 1898), and Professor G. Forbes, "History of Astronomy" (History of ...

— Kepler • Walter W. Bryant

Words linked to "University extension" : didactics, pedagogy, education, extension course, educational activity, instruction, teaching, extension service