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Ron Manheimer, Executive Director of the
North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR), discusses
lifelong learning institutes’ challenges in meeting
the demand for educational opportunities of the Baby Boom
generation. He details the NCCCR’s program for meeting
the educational needs of retirement age individuals.
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In this article learn how four Indiana organizations, Workforce
Development Strategies Inc., the Regional Workforce Board
and Economic Development District, Corporation for a Skilled
Workforce, and the Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology
at Ball State University, came together as Maturity Matters
to address the impact of the aging workforce on a regional
economy. In this partnership, they are working to ensure
that the mature workforce becomes better educated and skilled.
As part of that process, they have learned about employers’
attitudes toward aging and working.
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This article describes National-Louis
University Professor Maria Malayter’s research on
how people transition into retirement and what they want
out of retirement. The article also details retirement’s
impact on the workplace
and on educational institutions.
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In his own words, Harry R. Moody discusses
higher education’s role in helping retirees remain
productive and the increasing role that lifelong learning
will play in our lives.
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Becky Klein-Collins provides a look at
Marc Freedman’s book, Prime Time. Freedman
details how retiring Baby Boomers may affect society, the
importance of valuing life experience, and opportunities
for retraining and second careers.
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Chip Johnstone, Provost and Academic Vice
President, Western Governors University, tells the story
of Western Governors University’s path to accreditation
with special focus on the role of the InterRegional Accrediting
Committee. This emerged as an important model for how different
regional accrediting bodies can work together to ensure
the quality of online degree programs and other inter-regional
concerns.
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Lifelong Learning Accounts (LiLAs) are
employer-matched, portable individual savings accounts used
to finance education and training—a 401(k) for adult
education and training. Becky Klein-Collins provides a detailed
description of LiLAs, CAEL’s lessons from the LiLA
demonstration projects, and LiLA policy activities at the
state and federal level.
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In March, CAEL introduced the fourth edition
of Earn College Credit for What You Know. Janet
Colvin, in her own words, discusses this publication and
how it includes the latest information on prior learning
assessment (PLA) and educational planning information for
adult learners, professionals, evaluators, administrators,
faculty, and training managers.
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Survey
Results from Winter 2006 Issue
The Beatles famously sang about “When
I’m 64” What do Forum and News readers plan
to do when they are 64?
• 49% of responding readers plan
to keep on working
• 16% will write a book or do research
• 12% will stop working and just play
• 6% plan to volunteer for a worthy cause
• 6% will find a new career
• 2% will start their own business
• 2% will work for their current employer as a consultant
Fifty-one readers responded to the
survey question in the last issue of the Forum and News.
CAEL
Mini-Survey:
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