Adult education -- Massachusetts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation (HOPE) records
Collection
Identifier: M188
Overview
For 40 years from 1971-2011 the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation (HOPE) was a prominent community based organization with regional offices in Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, Massachusetts. HOPE offered a variety of educational and health and human services programs for the Latino community of Massachusetts in the areas of college readiness, health promotion, prevention education, technology training, and workforce and leadership development. Program highlights included an annual...
Dates:
1957-2012; Majority of material found within 1982-2011
Lowell Institute School records
Collection
Identifier: A026
Overview
The Lowell Institute School was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1903 as the School for Industrial Foremen. It provided low-cost, continuing education to industrial foremen seeking to enhance their professional skills. The school offered two tuition-free evening programs: the Mechanical Course and the Electrical Course. Over time, the school's admission standards became more rigorous and its curriculum expanded, but it continued to offer two-year programs in mechanical...
Dates:
1883-2008