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Outreach enables Penn State to share faculty scholarship with constituencies beyond traditional campus classrooms. Outreach education at the University has many roots, and the photo above shows one: the Allentown "branch school," established in 1912. Offering evening classes in a former elementary school, it was Penn State's first permanent outreach education center, one of 12 such centers that the University would establish statewide, each with local support, by the mid-1920s. Students worked toward certificates in such applied engineering subjects as power plant economics, architectural drawing, and shop management. Penn State currently operates the largest unified outreach organization in American higher education. More than 1,500 faculty members deliver programs through Continuing Education, Cooperative Extension, Distance Education/World Campus, and Penn State Public Broadcasting to residents of all 67 Pennsylvania counties, 50 states, and 80 countries worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.outreach.psu.edu
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