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To further support lifelong learning in the Commonwealth, HB1 also created the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL). [16] KYVL serves all Kentuckians by providing free access to multiple learning and research tools to anyone with a library card.
In 1948, the University of Kentucky Northern Extension Center was founded in Covington. It is the unofficial beginning of the University of Kentucky Community College System—although this campus no longer operates as a community college, as it became a separate four-year institution in 1968 and is now known as Northern Kentucky University.
The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit in Lexington, Kentucky dedicated to literacy and the literary arts, hosted within the library. It provides tutoring and classes, sponsors writers' meetups and conferences, and runs the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame program.
The University of Connecticut Center for Learning in Retirement was founded in 1981, [9] and the Institute for Learning in Retirement was founded at American University in 1982. [ 10 ] Elderhostel Institute Network / Road Scholar Lifelong Learning Institute Network
University of the Cumberlands, first called Williamsburg Institute, was founded on January 7, 1889. [4] At the 1887 annual meeting of the Mount Zion Association, representatives from 18 eastern Kentucky Baptist churches discussed plans to provide higher education in the Kentucky mountains.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) offer noncredit courses with no assignments or grades to adults over age 50. Since 2001, philanthropist Bernard Osher has made grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation to launch OLLI programs at 120 universities and colleges throughout the United States.
Jun. 2—On Wednesday, June 2, community members gathered at Athen State University's Center for Lifelong Learning on the square, where they announced the creation of the LaunchBox Entrepreneurial ...
In 1936, with the Ashland Independent School District's Board of Education and first term Governor Happy Chandler's support, Ashland Oil and Refining Company founder [3] and CEO Paul G. Blazer [4] and Ashland attorney John T. Diederich, a leading Republican figure in the state, [5] lobbied for the expansion of Kentucky State tax legislation (KRS 165) for municipal colleges and the associated ...