Outreach and Extension
Auburn’s Partnership with the
People of Alabama and Beyond
Auburn’s land-grant mission includes a responsibility to extend knowledge beyond the classroom and apply research in direct, practical ways through service to the community. Through outreach, Auburn works directly with communities to improve quality of life and help citizens meet educational goals.
It’s a partnership that reaches virtually every Alabamian through hundreds of programs and services, and to people nationally and internationally through dedicated faculty and students who carry their programs into the field.
Outreach offers lifelong learning opportunities for individuals through credit and non-credit continuing education and distance learning courses, while Auburn faculty and students engage in a variety of community-based service projects. Additionally, the university provides expert consultation and technical assistance to improve our government, education, health and business institutions.
Auburn hosts several outreach centers and more than 75 programs in the schools and colleges on campus. The university is headquarters for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, which provides a range of services through its network of county-based offices in every corner of the state.
Outreach Highlights
• Annually, Auburn registers some 50,000 participants in more than 1,000 non-credit professional continuing education training programs and outreach activities at more than 100 locations across Alabama and the United States.
• Auburn performs hundreds of technical assistance projects each year for public and private agencies, businesses and organizations. The economic impact documented for industrial consultations alone in a single year reached almost $20 million in increased productivity and investment capacity for clients.
• The world-renowned Rural Studio engages architecture students in housing and community projects to create inspiring, innovative and practical designs to benefit residents in Alabama’s Black Belt, one of the poorest regions of the nation. Its sister program, the Urban Studio, gives students the opportunity to pursue design in an urban setting and work with communities to develop plans promoting physical and economic vitality.
• The Institute for Patient Safety and Medical Simulation, a collaboration of Auburn University and Baptist Health Systems, combines innovative training methods with simulation technology to enhance the speed and accuracy of patient treatment.
• Auburn’s engagement and service learning network, www.auburnserves.com, offers more than 100 community partnership opportunities through which students and faculty can participate in course- and project-based service activities throughout Alabama.
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