Teach-out

A teach-out or teachout is an arrangement by which an educational institution provides its current students with the opportunity to complete their course of study when the institution closes or stops accepting new students into the course.

[1] One common teach-out arrangement is for an institution or program to stop accepting new entrants, but continue teaching existing students until they have completed their course of study.

[2] In the United States, all federally recognized accreditors must require every institution they accredit to submit a teach-out plan.

[6] A teach-out can also occur when a trade union in the educational realm puts on an event as part of an industrial action, where speakers deliver classroom-like content that purportedly replaces whatever regular classes might be missed due to the action.

More generally, teach-outs can refer to any event that exists along the lines of, in the words of the University of Michigan, "just-in-time global community learning events focusing on current issues, that enable a wide variety of people to join the ... campus community in exploring a timely topic.