Continuing Education 



47. Approximately 300 different 

 companies have participated. 

 Losses from degrade in the drying 

 process have been reduced by 20 

 percent to 33 1,3 percent. Total 

 system productivity increases of 10 

 percent have resulted (Lamb, 

 personal communication). 



Wood As an Industrial Fuel — In the 

 mid 1970's, North Carolina State 

 extension forest-products 

 specialists began a program to 

 increase the use of logging and 

 wood-product manufacturing 

 residues as industrial fuel by the 

 brick and textile industries. A 

 combustion engineering specialist 

 was hired on a part-time basis to 

 work one-on-one with plant 

 engineers and managers. 



Since 1977, 30 of these nonwood 

 manufacturing plants have 

 switched from oil or natural gas to 

 wood or a combination of wood 

 and coal. They annually consume 

 approximately 630,000 green tons 

 of woody residuals valued at S5 

 million. This wood replaced the 

 equivalent of 27 million gallons 

 (102 million L) of oil worth S22 

 million with a 10-percent increase 

 in utilization of mill residues. Cost 

 saving to the participating firms 

 was estimated at S17 million (Jahn 

 n.d. unpubl. ). 



A bachelor of science 

 degree is only a license to 

 learn: it is not an 

 honorable discharge for 

 life from the university 

 and from education 

 (source unknown). 



Continuing education 

 embraces the concept of 

 lifelong learning, which is 

 the process whereby 

 individuals continue to 

 develop their knowledge, 

 skills, and attitudes over 

 their lifespans — from the 

 cradle to the grave 

 (Hampton, personal 

 communication). 



This concept is a very broad one. 

 For adults it encompasses all kinds 

 of goals and activities including 

 learning for learning's sake, the 

 development of hobbies, the 

 acquisition of social graces, and so 

 forth. The focus here will be on 

 those teaching programs at 

 southern universities and 

 technician schools that do not lead 

 to a degree but are designed to 

 maintain or improve the 

 professional or technical 

 competence of forestry and forest- 

 products professionals, scientists, 

 technicians, and certain skilled 

 workers in these fields. 



At the professional level, Dana and 

 Johnson (1963) described such 

 programs: 



Programs of postgraduate 



education intended to 



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