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Mission

The mission of the Outreach Program Office is to propose, develop, coordinate, administer, and conduct fee-for-service, non-credit, educational programs designed to:

(1) Make the educational resources of the University (in areas that are interdisciplinary or areas that have no school-based outreach unit) available to the general public;

(2) Better utilize existing University facilities and services; and

(3) Promote the image of Auburn University as a major public service provider in the State and in the Southeast.

Goals

(1)  Provide high quality, fee-for-service, non-credit, continuing education programs to the citizens of Alabama and beyond. Programmatic offerings will fall into one of four general categories: Professional Development Training, Programs for Older Adults, Community Courses, and Resident Summer Youth Camps.

(2)  The OPO will seek to improve the overall efficiency of the non-credit, fee-for-service, educational programming effort by increasing the total amount of program income generated and the total number of participants enrolled per dollar of University funding invested in a year.