• Introduction
• About
• History
• Inductees
  • Class of 2007
  • Class of 2006
  • Class of 2005
  • Class of 2004
  • Class of 2003
  • Class of 2002
  • Class of 2001
  • Class of 2000
  • Class of 1999
  • Class of 1998
  • Class of 1997
  • Class of 1996
• Officers & Directors
• Strategic Plan
• Benchmarks
• Gifts & Contributions
• Nominations
• Location

History of the Hall of Fame

The story of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame officially began with the desire to provide a mechanism to honor and document contributions of the past to better build the future. Dr. Thurman J. White began the discussion of this idea with current leaders and officers of several associations and organizations (University Continuing Education Association, American Society for Training and Development, American Association of Adult and Continuing Education, ECOP/National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges).

After considerable discussion, the Hall was incorporated in the state of Oklahoma on September 20, 1995, as a nonprofit corporation. From the higher education organizations listed above a Board of Directors was chosen: Thurman J.White, Chairman; John C. Snider,Vice Chairman; Monroe C. Neff, Executive Coordinator; Betty Ward, Secretary; John Holden, Treasurer; and members-at-large Marcia Bankirer, Myron D. Johnsrud, Ken McCullough, James P. Pappas, Edward G. Simpson, Jr. and E.T.York, Jr.

Hall of Fame founder Thurman White, inducted in the first Class of 1996, is a pioneering contributor to the theoretical base of adult education. He conceived and played an active role in the design and development of the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education (University Outreach) on the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus, one of ten W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded university-based residential conference centers in the world.

As a champion for the profession of adult education, Mr. White served as president of the Adult Education Association of the USA and the National University Continuing Education Association (now UCEA). For ten years he edited Adult Education, a professional journal.

Introduction | History | Inductees | Officers & Directors | Benchmarks
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