niversity's Alumni Association is launching a unique educational program designed specifically for Ottawa retirees. Learning in Retirement (LinR), created by retired Carleton faculty and alumni, is a daytime, non-credit, educational program designed for semi-retired and retired people who are interested in learning for the fun of learning. It offers intellectually challenging and interesting short-term seminars, which emphasize a peer learning environment.
This fall, there are three LinR seminars scheduled to begin the week of October 1, 2000. The seminar leaders and topics are:
Each seminar is held once a week for one and a half hours, for six consecutive weeks. The format will include a 45-minute lecture with a 30-minute class discussion. Each seminar costs $45 and interested participants can sign up for more than one seminar.
Gerry Glavin, Carleton University BSc/54 alumnus and Chair of theAdvisory Working Group for the LinR program, says the working group is very excited about the LinR program and believes there will be many benefits to participants and the University.
"It provides retirement-age people with intellectually challenging and interesting short term seminars for a modest fee. It also opens the door to serving a new constituency and to building new community ties with local retirees," he says.
Glavin says the seminar participants will not be disappointed. "The seminar facilitators are well-known experts in their fields with many years of knowledge, research and insight. They are doing this because they believe in it."
The program is modeled after similar programs in over 220 educational institutions in North American including the University of New York City, University of California, Harvard, Duke and New Hampshire.
In Canada, there are ten programs including McGill, Victoria (Toronto), Ryerson, Western Ontario, Regina and the University of British Columbia. All of the programs have experienced steady growth in this area of learning, which testifies that this kind of program is meeting a need.
For more information on Learning in Retirement or to obtain a registration form, contact Carleton University's Alumni and Development Services at 520-3636.