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The International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame

On the campus of University of Oklahoma's Outreach, 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 of Fame was incorporated in the state of Oklahoma on September 20, 1995, as a nonprofit corporation. Hall of Fame plaques of each inductee and a kiosk are housed within the Thurman J. White Forum Building at OCCE.

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 University Outreach Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education (OCCE) on the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus, one of eleven 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.

Visit the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame Web site.