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• College of Continuing Education Open House
  College of Continuing Education Open House. Jordan Nast, Robert Miller, Cruz Vasquez, Edwin Carabello, James Hall, Jose Rivera, Clint Cotton, Laurie Russell, Nelson Molina In this photo, open house visitors pose with various plants in what could be a biology or botany laboratory.
• Continuing Education at RIT -A Document for Discussion-
  Continuing education is something we all do, formally or informally. It is the process of constant learning in which we are all engaged. Formally, continuing education classes and programs began 100 years ago at universities, so individuals could learn new innovations in the tools and techniques of his or her respective trade. Though trade continuing education classes still exist, it has evolved, and now there are professional classes as well. RIT has always been a continuing education school as its original focus was on adults and has only recently emphasized youth education more.
• 50 W Main Lobby
  The lobby area of 50 West Main devoid of students at the time, was one of the several buildings in RIT’s Downtown Campus that existed into the 1970’s. It was here that students could take classes from across the institute but notably also from the Continuing Education course selection. Many of the classes offered at the 50 West Main building involved some type of applied component.
• College of Continuing Education Class
  In this photo, an unidentified student weaves on a loom as part of the Continuing Education program at RIT’s downtown campus facilities. Date unknown, likely early-mid 70’s. During this time, RIT’s School of American Craftsmen (today just the School of American Crafts) offered a few weaving and textile courses including Introduction to Textiles and Advanced Textiles. These courses cost about $90-$100 each, and were offered each quarter. Unfortunately, RIT no longer offers these types of classes, as the Weaving and Textile program was recently discontinued.
• 1975-76 College of Continuing Education Programs and Courses “Outline of Programs and Schedule of Classes”
  The course catalog provides an in depth over of the courses available. There is an emphasis on flexible scheduling, as many students are working professionals with limited time to learn outside of their job. The course catalog also provides information on grading, tuition, financial aid and department phone numbers for further inquiry. This course catalog advertises RIT’s multiple campuses and flexibility. The Metropolitan Center on 50 West Main Street provided day and evening course work in areas of mathematics, ceramics and management, textiles weaving and design, human behavior, social work and electromechanical technology. The main campus in Henrietta in 1975 was a 12 building complex on 1300 acres of land and the ability to enroll up to 20,000 students.
• Drafting Classroom
  Students take advantage of drafting classes at RIT's 50 W Main campus.
• Applied Arts Classroom
  Students hard at work in an Applied Arts class.
• College of Continuing Education Official Bulletin (1973-74)
  This course catalog was available for students in the College of Continuing Education during the 1973-74 school year. Its psychedelic cover reflects the unique culture and style of the 70s. Students could browse the various programs, courses, and other offerings from the College of Continuing Education before selecting their classes for the semester. Some of these programs, particularly in the engineering field, are still offered at RIT today. Nowadays, RIT students can access all of their academic information in seconds using the online Student Information System, while printed course catalogs have become a thing of the past.
• Extended Services Division
  This is a short letter addressed to Mr. Harold Kentner, dated July 10, 1973, from Mr. Ronald J. Hilton, an Associate in the Extended Services Division of the College of Continuing Education. Mr. Hilton writes of his frustrating experience in trying to create and market a new program, and states that he was unprepared for the time and energy it would take to do so. It is assumed that Mr. Hilton speaks of the Metropolitan Center that RIT purchased the year before.
• Management Diploma Program
  This is a short letter in the annual report addressed to Mr. Robert Kay, dated June 28, 1973, from the Assistant Dean of the Administration College of Continuing Education, Norman A. Flannigan, in regards to the Management Diploma Program. Mr. Flannigan expresses concern about the decrease in students enrolled in the program, and worries that there will be no students enrolled in Management Diploma in four years. He asks Mr. Kay for his opinion.
• The Metropolitan Center
  This is a letter in the annual report addressed to Ronald Hilton, Academic Administrator of the Metropolitan Center, dated May 7, 1973, from Fred Meyer, a professor of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Mr. Meyer presents an argument against the sale of the Metropolitan Center.
• Introduction to Annual Report
  This is the introduction in the annual report. The document discusses RIT’s decision to move the Extended Services Division to the Metropolitan Center on 50 West Main Street. The move seems to be a response to the diverse needs of the College of Continuing Education’s target audience (adults).
• Mail Registration Form
  Mail registration form for the fall semester, found in the College of Continuing Education course catalog for 1972-73. Rather than registering for courses online like today, RIT students who wished to take evening classes had to fill out the registration form and send it into the Registrar's Office.
• Annual Report of the Dean of the College of Continuing Education
  This is the front page of the annual report of the Dean of the College of Continuing Education addressed to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. It includes a summary of the report, highlighting both challenges and successes from 1972 to 1973.
• Proposed Renovations for 50 W Main
  A renovation plan for a floor of the 50 West Main building. In 1978 the building was rebranded the City Center by the RIT President at the time. 50 West Main was primarily used as a space for evening classes early in its use as an RIT location. The space gave the Institute a wider variety of options for lab, studio, and classroom spaces which in turn allowed it to cater to a student body with a need for more flexible schedules.
• College of Continuing Education: Students Registering
  In this photo, unidentified students stand in line for course registration. It's a good example of how the sign-up process worked before everything was just taken care of online.
• Fall Sports Schedule
  The provided picture is part of a fall sports schedule from 1971. The sports shown here are soccer, football, and cross country. The aspect of this that is most interesting is the still existing football team. At the time, coached by the recent head coach of the NFL NY Giants, Tom Coughlin. Since the end of the football team at RIT, they have shirts that say “RIT Football Undefeated since 1978.”
• Course Offerings
  There were the newly updated class offerings for evening students during the spring quarter, as well. The programs still include many of the ones previously offered, as well as the new offerings from the winter quarter, such as crafts, biology/chemistry, computer systems and engineering. Arts is not included in the spring, however, but there is an addition of industrial technology. This reflects the growing population of evening students at RIT and the need for more diverse and specialized programs. Unlike the prior spring quarters, off campus classes finally became available at Olympia High School and R.L. Thomas High School.
• Fish-Eye of 50 W Main
  A unique photograph of the main entrance of the old 50 W Main Street Campus of RIT in Downtown Rochester. Pictured here are Edward P. Curtis, Dorothy Wadsworth, Gene de Prez, Loma Allen, and two unidentified individuals about to enter the building for an open house. This campus was home to many different work spaces that allowed students access to a wide swath of topics from engineering to applied arts. The space was acquired by RIT in 1961 and was used to house the Colleges of Generalized Studies and Business. A historic building - 50 West Main was transformed from the Kodak Naval Ordnance Plant as a manufacturer of weapons to what then RIT President Paul A. Miller called a “Metropolitan Center”.
• Course Offerings
  There were the newly updated class offerings for evening students during the winter quarter. The programs include many of the ones previously offered, but additions such as arts, crafts, biology/chemistry, computer systems and engineering became available to evening students. This reflects the growing population of evening students at RIT and the need for more diverse and specialized programs. There are still off campus classes offered at Olympia High School and R.L. Thomas High School, and the amount of classes offered has increased as well.
• Course Descriptions From Management Program
  Course descriptions from the discontinued Management program in the College of Continuing Education reflect a time when many RIT graduates were entering the industrial sector. The College of Continuing Education offered courses for employed managers to refine their skills and gain valuable knowledge about their field.
• Social Work at RIT
  This photograph of the Social Work students in the College of General Studies, also paired with the College of Continuing Education, at RIT depicts the students working with "underprivileged” children. In the 1970s, RIT held a budding social work program that did practical, hands-on training with the students and members of the community in Rochester. The program hosted a diverse array of courses including Day Care Programming, Casework, and Neighborhood Organization and Development. This program clearly emphasized the importance of putting practical use to the information learned in the classroom and created open opportunity for the undergraduate students to practice these skills.
• Student and Professor in Printmaking Class
  Photograph of student and professor during printmaking class, found in the 1969-70 College of Continuing Education course catalog in the Arts and Graphic Arts section. Some of the printmaking courses offered included Flexographic Printing, Offset Lithography, and Typography and Letterpress Printing.
• Rochester Campus
  This image shows a map of the RIT campus in 1969, taken from the back of a spring schedule. It is interesting to see how much the campus has grown since this time. Many if not all of the buildings and parking lots are still the same. It might be a bit confusing deciphering this map at first because most maps of the current campus are oriented upside down in comparison to this one. Also obviously it is much smaller than the campus today.
• Downtown Campus Laboratory
  Several students shown in the photograph are hard at work in one of the many laboratories at the 50 West Main campus building that was part of the larger RIT campus network. Classes like chemistry could be taught to these students to supplement any type of coursework including night classes part of the Continuing Education program.