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The National Labor College officially closed on April 26, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NLC in Transition )http://www.nlc.edu/sample-page/about-us/〕 It was the only regionally accredited higher education institution in the United States devoted exclusively to educating union members and their families, and union leaders and staff. It was established as a training center by the AFL-CIO in 1969 to strengthen union member education and organizing skills. NLC became a degree-granting college in 1997 and in March 2004 gained accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the NLC )〕 The college announced its intention to sell its campus in 2012, and continue its work as an online program only. In November 2013, National Labor College announced its Board of Trustees had directed the college's president and officers to develop a plan to close the school. In July 2014 the (Amalgamated Transit Union, AFL-CIO/CLC ) purchased the National Labor College campus. The ATU plans to expand its long-standing union education and activism program to the newly acquired campus. ==History== In 1969 AFL-CIO President George Meany founded a labor studies center under the direction of Fred K. Hoehler Jr. to promote education and training opportunities for union leadership and rank-and-file members. The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO determined an educational and training center held an important role in the organization's effort to further develop trade unionism, and decided to locate a permanent campus for the pursuit of labor studies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Campus History )〕 On November 6, 1974, AFL-CIO President George Meany dedicated the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, located on the former campus of Xaverian College. The property was purchased from the Xaverian Brothers by the AFL-CIO for $2.5 million in 1971. At the dedication, Meany remarked that the purpose of the institution was to help union officials "make a better contribution to our people and to our nation."〔〔"AFL-CIO Labor Study Center Dedicated in Silver Spring," by J.Y. Smith, ''The Washington Post'', Nov 7, 1974, pg. C14.〕 In 1997 under the leadership of AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, the center received authorization to grant baccalaureate degrees by the State of Maryland Higher Education Commission and became an independent institution of higher learning and renamed the National Labor College. By 2004, National Labor College had become fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.〔 The National Labor College published ''Labor's Heritage'', a scholarly journal of labor history, until 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.civicmediacenter.org/collection/periodical/labors-heritage )〕 In the fall of 2006 the new Lane Kirkland Center opened on the National Labor College campus, to provide upgraded facilities, and to greatly expand the college's hosting capabilities. At the time, the college hoped to promote the Kirkland Center as "America's union hall." In 2009, the college entered into a partnership with Penn Foster Education, a career college subsidiary of the Princeton Review in order to develop a distance education program. The program was ended by the college in November, 2011, because of the slow growth of the program and the financial difficulties of the Princeton Review.〔Goldie Blumenstyk, "National Labor College Ends Joint Venture With For-Profit Partner" ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' ()〕 The college intended to use the facilities developed under this program to build its own program of distance education.〔 The losses from the joint program were in part responsible for the 2012 decision to close the college's campus and function in online education only.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Labor College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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