Community Services Program The function of the Community Services Program is to enlarge educational opportunity beyond the traditional limitations of time, place and subject matter normally associated with institutions of higher learning. Because of employment, family or financial responsibilities, thousands of Cuyahoga County residents find these limitations prohibitive. In order to meet the needs of these individuals, the Community Services Program offers evening courses; in-service, on- or off-site business and industrial courses; programs and courses designed to assist individuals with specific economic or social needs. In short, the program implements cultural, educational and occupational offerings at a time and place and of a nature determined by community need and interest. The Community Services Program offers a broad spectrum of late afternoon and evening courses, credit and non-credit, for students of all ages. Some courses are offered to students without fee. The credit courses, with very few exceptions, differ in no essential degree from those offered during the daytime. Non-credit courses are designed to meet specific needs outside the scope of regular degree programs. They often take such unor~hodox forms as one-day seminars, special evening programs combining portions of many regular College courses, or workshops lasting from several days to several weeks. An example of the latter is the Secretarial Skills Workshop offered every Summer since 1964 in cooperation with the Urban League. These offerings are established as a result of a request from a specific group within the community, or upon the recommendation of other departments within the College. Individuals and enterprises within Cuyahoga County are invited to explore ways in which the College can provide additional community services. An example of continuing non-credit service is Project EVE, a free counseling and referral center for mature women planning to enter or reenter the work world. It helps individual women solve their problems by providing information regarding education, volunteer work and employment opportunities throughout Greater Cleveland. Other community services offered by the College are Project "New Careers", which in 1967-68 trained some 120 welfare aides for positions with the County Welfare Department, and Project SEARCH, an educa-
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