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Maricopa Community Colleges are fully engaged in lifelong learning. Maricopa CARES, the District's Center on Aging located at Phoenix College, assists interested colleges and serves students, employees, and the community in matters related to aging. Individual college programs are offered through traditional community education departments and faculty-led models, as well as through peer-directed membership organizations in which participants develop, market, and facilitate their own classes with the assistance of colleges.
Colleges interested in and responsible for senior adult programming throughout the District have established the Senior Adult Network (SAN) whose mission, through linkages with the wider community, is to serve as a model for cooperative educational networking by: discovering, creating, and sharing resources; supporting the development of accessible, quality education; and advocating senior adult programs. The Senior Adult Network continually challenges the Maricopa Community Colleges to enhance and promote personal growth within our diverse populations through lifelong learning opportunities. SAN seeks to:
- Establish an ongoing financially-sound basis for senior adult programming throughout the District through regular budget lines and District operating funds. SAN will pursue opportunities for supplemental funds from external sources.
- Establish all elements of a rewarding learning environment based on identified needs and interests, including safe and accessible physical facilities, utilization of available technology, and alternative delivery methods.
- Reach all seniors residing in the community who have unmet learning needs and interests.
- Provide quality programming in response to the needs and interests of older adults residing in the community. Quality programming is timely, flexible, and accessible; available through a variety of delivery methods; and evaluated on a regular basis. When appropriate, programming will include opportunities for involvement of the homebound as well as those who live and function independently in the community.
- Identify, showcase, and utilize the valuable resources embodied in older adults in a manner that is beneficial to senior adults, the colleges and the district, and the community at large.
- Develop and participate in public and private partnerships that will improve quality of life and enhance the ability of the colleges and the District to serve the community.
- Represent the interests of older adults, the colleges, and the District through a variety of media as it endeavors to fulfill its mission.
Individual programs within the District have developed over years in response to the needs and interests of local colleges and their communities. In addition to college based advisory committees, SAN is guided by a District-wide advisory council with membership from colleges and communities. To learn more about programs at your college or in your community, contact your SAN representative:
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Sun Lakes Education Center
Mary Kaye Allen
(480) 857-5505
Estrella Mountain Community College
Community Education Program
Katie Brocker
(623) 935-8492
Glendale Community College
Community Education
Suzanne Higgins
(623) 845-3808
Mesa Community College
New Frontiers for Learning in Retirement
Ann Cox
(480) 461-7497
Paradise Valley Community College
Senior College
Judi Anderson
(602) 787-6802
Phoenix College
Adult Education Program
Colleen Massey
(602) 285-7192
Rio Salado College
Sun Cities Lifelong Learning Center
Charlcey Brabec
(480) 517-8776
Scottsdale Community College
Senior Adult Educational Program
Vincent Huffman
(480) 423-6535
South Mountain Community College
Guadalupe Center
Raul Monreal
(602) 243-8040
For additional information about Maricopa CARES, the Senior Adult Network, college programs, or eldercare, contact: Rose Pfefferbaum at (602) 285-7587.
 Rose Pfefferbaum, Ph.D., mcli
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