From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine's Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)

510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also called “lifelong learning”— is old and venerable. It taps into some of the best humanist ideals of self-improvement and the democratization of access to skills and knowledge. But the management of contemporary continuing education programs by many universities has shown…