ABSTRACT
In 1931 Ohio State University followed Columbia’s example and created a Department of Adult Education, the courses being taught by Jessie Allen Charters. With the expansion of various kinds of adult education in the ‘twenties and ‘thirties, and particularly with the establishment of a more coordinated movement, the scope of university graduate offerings was both extended and broadened. Fairly soon after the emergence of the adult educational movement in 1923-1926 there appeared the first intensive effort to provide a coordinated program of graduate offerings. The more customary way of developing a graduate specialty in adult education, however, has been gradual growth out of an earlier offering of one or more courses. In 1947 a Bureau of Studies in Adult Education was established at Indiana University under the direction of Paul Bergevin and a program of graduate instruction began the following year.
