Continuing Education Center
to relocate in downtown Erie
b Robb Frederick
The Collegian
Cardboard boxes litter Penn
State-Behrend's Continuing
Education Center as the division
prepares to move to a new off
campus location.
"We're going downtown
because on-campus facilities are
no longer available due to the
College's growth," said Janet
Patterson, the director of
Continuing Education.
The building which currently
houses CE will be demolished in
spring 1991 to make room for
the College's new library
complex.
The center will relocate to the
former IBM building at 9th and
Sassafras Streets on Dec. 3.
Because of the relocation, CE
Undergraduate Preparedness Survey
Undergraduates are
not getting as good
an education as they
did five years ago
I _ 70
60
50
41
31'1
20
M 10
This institution
spends too much
time and money
teaching students
what they should
have learned in high
school
programs will be interrupted for a
two-day period.
The new CE location will
include several classrooms,
offices and student lounges and a
20-computer laboratory which
will be connected to the
University's mainframe. To better
serve the many non-traditional
students who benefit from
Continuing Education programs,
the center will be open weekdays
from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. with
additional weekend hours to be
announced.
The building will be renamed
the Penn State Downtown
Center, and will provide a
centralized hub for CE programs.
"Continuing Education
currently operates out of six
different locations," Patterson
Too many students
ill-suited for
academic life are
now enrolling in
colleges
Undergraduates
become more
careerist
concerns compared
with students in the
late 60's and early
70's
a 60
explained. "The new location will
enable us to centrally manage our
programming."
The division's numerous
programs concentrate on public
programming and custom design
training for businesses within the
southern Great Lakes region.
"We concentrate on extending
the resources within the
University," Patterson said. "We
work with area businesses and the
University to try and bring
together the available resources."
Such efforts include on-site
executive management training,
computer training, and quality
assurance training.
Recent CE programming has
focused on local economic
development and the protection of
Pennsylvania commerce.
There has been a
widespread lowering
of standards in
American education
I n 20
10
KEY
111 BehrendtFaculty,
1989
EBehrend Faculty,
1990
Carnegie
Foundation
Survey, 1989
Today's
students
are less
qualified
Faculty survey
suggests
students not
ready for college
b . Shhl aim
The Collegian
A recent survey by The
Collegian shows that almost 95
percent of the Behrend faculty
believe too many students now
enrolling in college are under
qualified for academic life, up 15
percent from last year.
The survey is a follow-up to a
story published last February. In
that story, local findings were
compared to a national survey
compiled by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. Last year Behrend
faculty consistently had stronger
beliefs that beginning students in
college were unprepared
academically for the rigors of a
college course. .
The findings of The Collegian
survey are by , no means
scientific, they are simply a
means of discovering the general
feeling of the academic
(continued on page 3)