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23, 1972, in the office of President Emeritus
Frederick L. Hovde and R. B. Eckles, interviewer.
This is for the Purdue University Archives.
Well President Hovde lets start out with the
story of the regional campuses.
Regional campus development under the egis of
the state universi ties ·-.in Indiana is an interesting
developmental story. The state university Indiana
University of course, had its so called extension
program. The largest element of which located
in Indianapolis but it also developed in some
eight or ten other cities in the state.
Extension educational service this type of
extension educational service in the urban
setting and is necessary and a valuable educational
service and encompasses a wide variety of
programs serving a wide variety of educational
needs in the urban setting. Purdue's principel
involvement in extension education, of course,
had was that cooperative agricultural extension
service where the farmers and homemakers in the
rural scene throughout the whole state were part
of Purdue's operating .campus and Purdue's
development in the cooperative agricultural
extension service was carried out through
the county agent system which meant that the
county agent was not only the administrator but
also teacher, a pervayer of scientific and
other types of information to the user, the
learner in this case, the farmer and his
family. Purdue University also had the
responsibility for engineering in the state of
Indiana. Engineering education and when I
came to Purdue in 1946 I felt that Purdue should