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Saying "We're Your Place" to our citizens, the Humanities
Extension/Publications Program is a North Carolina Educational
Partnership. It engages faculty members in the College of Humanities and
Social Sciences with the general public as well as the state's K-12
population of students and teachers. In the land-grant spirit of formal
and informal education, this engagement is a two-way exchange of
expertise and information. Services provided to the public include free
workshops and seminars, OUTREACH visits to local school classrooms
statewide, summer institutes, writing camps for 4-H and other youth, and
grade-level curriculum development including social studies textbooks and
supplemental videos. From the public the Program's faculty get valuable
suggestions about new research domains and approaches that lead to new
offerings. The Cooperative Extension Service, state and local educational
agencies, and public libraries as well as community learning centers are
partners in this educational services network.
As the organized extension and outreach program of the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University, Humanities
Extension/Publications enables the college to be a full partner in the
mission of the university. The scope of related activities is broad,
involves teaching and research faculty efforts, and draws service from the
campus to all age groups of state citizens. Until 1978 the college did not
organize its extension and outreach program. An alliance with the North
Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in that year became the seedbed of
the program that flourishes today.
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