The Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development was created in 2003
The Faculty was known as College of Continuing Education (CCE) from 2003 to 2021
The Faculty is an amalgamation of several historically separate institutions, including Henson College, Dalhousie's Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), the Henson Centre, and the Office of Part Time Studies of Extension
Public Affairs, the second quarterly published by Dalhousie, was created by IPA founder Lothar Richter
The College's Transition Year Program (TYP) began in 1970 to increase the access and the successful participation of Black and Aboriginal students at Dalhousie University
The Faculty currently has more than 250 instructors from a variety of backgrounds
Deans of the College of Continuing Education
Andrew G. Cochrane
Andrew G. Cochrane has been Dean of the College of Continuing Education from 2000 to present.
Dr. Lothar Richter arrived in Halifax from Germany in 1934, and founded the IPA in 1937
Patricia Doyle‑Bedwell
Patricia Doyle‑Bedwell was the director of the Transition Year Program, the first Mi'kmaq woman to earn tenure at Dalhousie, and is an advocate for and professor of Indigenous and human rights
Waite, P.B. (1994). The Lives of Dalhousie University: Volume Two - 1925 - 1980. The Old College Transformed. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. (LE 3 D32 W3 1994 v.2)
