Vacroux opened the first off-campus SMU Advanced Computer Education Center in 1995. Since then, three additional centers were opened, and more than 3,000 students have gone through the noncredit programs to prepare for careers in computer programming and networking technologies. By expanding research activity, he has enhanced not only SMU's national reputation, but also its importance to our region. Murfin will appoint a search committee for Vacroux's successor in the near future. Vacroux says he has been an advocate of distance and continuing education since the first televised lecture he gave while at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s.
Distance education is at a strategic turning point.
Until recently telecommunication satellites provided the major means of distribution for distance education. Now technological advances are providing a broad range of additional possibilities. Joining NTU at this time is giving me a unique opportunity to be directly involved in shaping the future of professional distance education. How American radicals changed the nation is the subject of the eighth annual Stanton Sharp Symposium in History Nov. 17 and 18. The collection, on loan from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University, will be on display in the DeGolyer Library from Nov. 18 through Feb. 21.