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Ohio Continuing Higher Education AssociationMarch 24, 2011
Shifts Happen:
Older Adults & Lifelong Learning
Mary Beth Lakin, Associate DirectorCenter for Lifelong Learning
About ACE
The American Council on Education (ACE) is the only higher education organization that
represents presidents and chancellors of all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting
institutions: community colleges and four-year institutions, private and public universities, and
nonprofit and for-profit colleges.
This cross-sector membership enables ACE to serve as higher education's unifying voice.
ACE’s Center for Lifelong Learning
What an individual learns is more
important than when, where, and how
the individual learned it.
www.acenet.edu/clll
Transitions: Learning, Work, and Community
At 55, I expect to . . .
At 55, I expected to . . .
Older Adults: The Landscape
What shifts are taking place?
What do we know? What do we need to know?
• What older adults know
• How to help older adults make use of what they know
• What we are doing in our own organizations
• How to respond to continuum of learning needs
• How to use our resources wisely
What are we doing? What do we need to do?
• Map terrain
• Reach out in nontraditional ways
• Take life cycle approach
• Borrow what works to increase options
• Link across organization types & sectors
The maps they gave us were out of date by years.
--Adrienne Rich
