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item	Recruitment Reception for Glendale Community College's Academy for Lifelong Learning
contact	John Gibson (Glendale Community College) john.gibson@gcmail.maricopa.edu 1 of 2 packages by John Gibson
credits	Sheryl Benavides, Adjunct Faculty Suzanne Smelser, Program Coordinator Suzanne Higgins, Media Coordinator Connie LaBuhn, Fitness & Wellness Department Chair Julie Valenzuela, Program Coordinator Patricia Vogel, Marketing and PR Coordinator George Martinez, College Advancement Services Director John Winters, Physical Sciences Department Chair Pam Nelson, Faculty James Abraham, Ph.D., Faculty Christine Moore, Librarian Belva Barrick, Adjunct Faculty
college(s)	Glendale Community College
discipline(s)	Lifelong Learning
summary	The Recruitment Reception for Glendale Community College’s Academy for Lifelong Learning is an exciting and innovative community event where seniors discover classes designed especially for them, meet instructors, view facilities, and register on-the-spot! It is a terrific event for departments to collaborate on and jointly benefit from. At Glendale Community College, 1,650 registrations were generated.
details	(This initiative is Glendale's 2004 Innovation of the Year.) Offering Lifelong Learning opportunities to senior citizens is nothing new to the Maricopa Community College District. Many colleges work diligently to create and promote exciting new programs for seniors in our communities. What IS new at Glendale Community College is an innovative way to recruit seniors into these classes. Informing seniors of classes and motivating them to register are always the challenges. At the “Recruitment Reception for the Academy for Lifelong Learning” GCC discovered a great way to do both. The newly created Academy for Lifelong Learning (classes for seniors) at GCC originally started out as simply a program of basic computer classes designed for seniors who wanted to use a home computer or acquire some job skills. The developers of these courses, John Gibson and Sheryl Benavides were having trouble filling these classes. They had a stroke of genius when they invited other departments that offered (or wanted to offer) senior classes to join them in planning a reception event to promote such an Academy that included more than just computer classes. Departments who joined the plan were Business and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Communications, Library Resources, Fitness and Wellness, and Community Education (noncredit classes). They worked together to offer classes--credit and noncredit-- especially tailored for lifelong learners. Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below.
web links	http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/cfl/index.html Glendale Community College Center for Learning http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/innovate/ Maricopa Community Colleges Innovation of the Year Program
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extra	Last modified: Nov-18-2004 Date created: Apr-01-2004 Visitor count: 3407 Dublin Core Metadata record This package is included in the Innovation of the Year Awards 2004 special collection.