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The maps they gave us were out of date by years.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

Questions, discussion, and participation

Mary Beth Lakin

Marybeth_lakin@ace.nche.edu

202.939.9704