ABSTRACT
The college established the Center for Community Education as an autonomous, self-governing unit to provide educational opportunities for adults, professional retirees, and other students who were not able to participate in the college’s residential programming. The continuing education unit at the college was guided by the belief that learning is lifelong and most noble when used to benefit others. Classes were first held in the Central High School Building in Harrisburg and credits could be applied toward a degree at either Elizabethtown or Lebanon Valley Colleges. The chapter provides specific conflicts/issues that most often made up particularly durable facades covering the power relationships behind them; these relationships present a truer face of critical theory’s impact on the institutional context of adult learning. Many of the timeline examples of this nature reveal the true nature of powerful, political relationships at the college such as where they are and who comprises them.
