PSBO offers something for everyone
Joanna Ware
Issue date: 3/10/09 Section: News
The Public Service and Business Outreach Center (PSBO) offers a variety of different classes open to anyone.
According to the PSBO web site, there are over 500 classes offered each semester, providing opportunities for participation in a wide variety of programs designed for professional development, personal enrichment, and recreation.
The organization started in the 1940s, and initially served to provide farmers with useful information, which could benefit them in the work environment. They offered classes such as tractor, poultry, daily, and family development.
Now, the PSBO offers over 500 different classes ranging from cake decorating to small business insurance. These classes are taught in a stress-free environment with no tests, no grades, and most importantly no admission requirements. They only require students of the program to pay a small fee.
Diane Kilgore serves as the Director of the PSBO and Vonda Fenn is the Program Coordinator.
Kilgore has been the Director at ABAC for 20 years. "We are the outreach arm of the college," Kilgore said. "We have the third largest continuing education program in the state."
Typically, people have misconceptions about continuing education and the importance of the program. "Many people think of continuing education as just basket weaving, but what they don't realize is that a huge percentage of our classes are career building classes that can be used later on in life."
The PSBO offers classes, which could potentially benefit those in the work environment such as Microsoft Excel and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
Fenn is mostly in charge of Kids' College, which offers programs for kids with many different activities ranging from athletics to art, and also covering different school subjects.
The programs offered by PSBO are not only beneficial for students at ABAC, but also members of the Tift County community.
"The PSBO courses are beneficial by updating career or professional skills, preparing for finding a job or making a job change, improving personal or family life, becoming better informed, or learning new arts or skills such as painting, sewing, or even woodworking," Fenn said.
According to the PSBO web site, there are over 500 classes offered each semester, providing opportunities for participation in a wide variety of programs designed for professional development, personal enrichment, and recreation.
The organization started in the 1940s, and initially served to provide farmers with useful information, which could benefit them in the work environment. They offered classes such as tractor, poultry, daily, and family development.
Now, the PSBO offers over 500 different classes ranging from cake decorating to small business insurance. These classes are taught in a stress-free environment with no tests, no grades, and most importantly no admission requirements. They only require students of the program to pay a small fee.
Diane Kilgore serves as the Director of the PSBO and Vonda Fenn is the Program Coordinator.
Kilgore has been the Director at ABAC for 20 years. "We are the outreach arm of the college," Kilgore said. "We have the third largest continuing education program in the state."
Typically, people have misconceptions about continuing education and the importance of the program. "Many people think of continuing education as just basket weaving, but what they don't realize is that a huge percentage of our classes are career building classes that can be used later on in life."
The PSBO offers classes, which could potentially benefit those in the work environment such as Microsoft Excel and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
Fenn is mostly in charge of Kids' College, which offers programs for kids with many different activities ranging from athletics to art, and also covering different school subjects.
The programs offered by PSBO are not only beneficial for students at ABAC, but also members of the Tift County community.
"The PSBO courses are beneficial by updating career or professional skills, preparing for finding a job or making a job change, improving personal or family life, becoming better informed, or learning new arts or skills such as painting, sewing, or even woodworking," Fenn said.
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