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Education
Week Will Bring Thousands to BYU Campus
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Education Week in 2006 will feature 1,100 classes ranging from gardening and
dance to finance and law. |
PROVO,
Utah — Brigham Young University will host the 84th annual Campus
Education Week, "Seek Learning," Aug. 21-25 at locations
throughout the BYU campus.
Education Week — possibly the largest single-event continuing education
program in the world — is co-sponsored by BYU and the Church Educational
System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It will
host 1,100 classes this year (including more than 80 youth classes
and a youth dance) ranging from topics such as gardening, dance
and muzzle-loading artillery, to religion, human relations, finance
and law. The program includes 178 returning faculty along with 59
new presenters.
This year's theme, "Seek Learning," was taken from D&C
88:118, "…seek ye diligently and teach one another words of
wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek
learning, even by study and also by faith."
The Education Week devotional will feature Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church on Tuesday, Aug.
22, in the Marriott Center at 11:10 a.m. This free devotional is
open to the public and is titled "Truth Restored."
Participants can register for the week, a single day or part of
a day, with early registration offered at about a 20 percent discount
from the at-the-door rate. Registration rates and other information
are available at the Education Week Web site, educationweek.byu.edu,
and registration may be completed by telephone, Internet, mail or
in person.
Volunteer hosting is once again available and provides free tuition
for participants, with shifts on four consecutive days. Participants
must be 18 years or older. For questions, contact 801/422-8012.
In an effort to serve a larger audience, the Church satellite network
and KBYU-TV (Channel 11 in Utah) will broadcast 12 presentations
by speakers such as John Bytheway, Richard N. Holzapfel and Victor
L. Ludlow. The broadcasts will run on BYU-TV from Sept. 12-15, and
on the Church satellite from Oct. 10-13.
Parking will be available around the LaVell Edwards Stadium, the
Marriott Center and other areas designated on the map provided with
the Education Week mailer available on request. For further lots,
there is a shuttle service that runs Tuesday through Friday of the
week and drops participants off at designated locations on the mailer
map. Use of public transportation and carpooling is encouraged.
Construction will affect the area around the Jesse Knight Building,
the area just northeast of the Tanner Building (the future site
of the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors' Center) and one street
just east of the Marriott Center.
For more information, contact the Education Week office at 801/422-8012.
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