Extension staff, operations moving to Williams Bldg.

A number of Extension Division units have packed up and are on the move, part of a physical reorganization that will see the University’s continuing and distance education activities centralized in the Williams Building.

Bob Cram, executive director of the new Centre for Continuing and Distance Education (CCDE) which is currently operating within the Extension Division, said the centre will eventually be made up of four organizational units – Credit Studies, the U of S Language Centre, Professional Development and Community Education and the executive director’s office which will include the marketing unit, information technology and administration. Most employees have been, or are currently, located in Kirk Hall with the exception of the Language Centre. It has called the Williams Building home for some time.

The first group to relocate was Marketing which moved in early October, said Cram. By Oct. 23, the offices and employees of Credit Studies should be moved to Williams, “and the remaining Extension people who are to be part of the CCDE – mainly Professional Development and Community Education – should be moved by Christmas.”

To prepare space for CCDE activities, the University budgeted just under $500,000 for renovations in the Williams Building, he said. These included painting, furniture, improvements to wheelchair accessibility and restructuring space for the registration office that will be located inside the main entrance. The remaining new space for the CCDE will be on the fourth floor. The Language Centre will continue to operate on the second and third floors.

Phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged, Cram said. Go to www.ccde.usask.ca for information about the new centre.