Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound
Neil Coletta, in the Office of Lifelong Learning, was quoted this week in a supplement to the regional weekly newspapers published by the Community Newspaper Company (and distributed in Brookline, Cambridge, Needham, Dover, Sherborn, Boston, Somerville, Watertown, Wellesley) on “Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound.”
Neil talked about our Evergreen Program: “Evergreen’s goal is to provide continuing education for those 58 and over. One way we do this is with a lecture and discussion series… We also offer, in tandem with the University at large, an option to audit a course… Some like the shorter courses and discussion groups, and some like to feel as though they’re back at school.”
Evergreen attracts thousands of senior citizens annually to a variety of courses and programs. Over the past several decades, Evergreen has created multi-generational experiences in liberal arts courses along with special presentations and seminars offered exclusively for Evergreen students.