This fall, Cooper College will offer significantly more continuing education opportunities. According to Program Director Amy Buffer, the increase is due to the almost doubling of the city's population over the last five years. Not only are there far more qualified people to offer continuing education programs, she says, but there is an increased desire for them. The College will also introduce a new delivery format. Traditionally, programs were either full or half courses, lasting eight or four months, or they were week-long seminars. The College has plans, however, for more than sixty single-day sessions dedicated to diverse, but specific subject matters. Most professionals, Buffer says, neither need nor can afford an entire week of study. She mentions that while employers used to pay for such courses, the prevalence of contract employment has unfortunately meant the end of such employer-provided benefits. The sessions will be held not at the main campus or even one of its two satellite campuses. Instead, Buffer says, locations will be determined by the sessions themselves. For example, the digital photography session will be held at a local studio, and the business start-up session will be held at the local Chamber of Commerce.