The board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall establish and organize a university extension division for the purpose of carrying on educational extension and correspondence instruction throughout the state. The board may carry on such extension work in connection with any department of the university, for the purpose of the development throughout the state of centers for the discussion, consideration, and investigation relative to the mining, manufacturing, engineering, social, industrial, economic, medical, and civic interests of the state and all other public interests which may be in any way promoted or subserved in the spreading of information throughout the state by any department of the university pursuant to the grant by virtue of which said university was established.
Effective Date: 10-01-1953.