{"id":60739,"date":"2008-02-28T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2008-02-28T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:00:46","slug":"met-appearances-and-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/met-appearances-and-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neil talked about our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/evergreen\/\">Evergreen Program<\/a>: &#8220;Evergreen&#8217;s goal is to provide continuing education for those 58 and over.\u00a0 One way we do this is with a lecture and discussion series&#8230; We also offer, in tandem with the University at large, an option to audit a course&#8230; Some like the shorter courses and discussion groups, and some like to feel as though they&#8217;re back at school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evergreen attracts thousands of senior citizens annually to a variety of courses and programs.\u00a0Over 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound.&#8221; Neil talked about our Evergreen Program: &#8220;Evergreen&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}