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William
Turner
William
Turner was one of the original founders of the national task force which
was established in 1968 to address the need for recognition and documentation
of non-credit education courses and programs for practicing professionals
and other adult learners throughout the U.S. Serving as the only chair,
he led the task force in the creation, implementation, and development
of guidelines for the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). As a result of
this work, thousands of organizations and institutions have enabled millions
of adult learners to document and be recognized for their non-credit continuing
education learning. In the 27 years since its founding, the CEU has become
the most commonly used "currency" for continuing education.
He also established
the Council on the Continuing Education Unit to monitor the use of the
CEU and to promote quality for the field of continuing education and training
through sponsored research.
Over a period of
30 years of administrative service for adult learners at North Carolina
State University, from which he retired in 1990 as Vice Chancellor, Emeritus
and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, he evolved a model organization
for the modern land-grant university and created the first university-based
development office for continuing education.
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