OLLI Embraces Learning for All Ages: Intergenerational Programming at UConn

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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 2009
OLLI Embraces Learning for All Ages
Intergenerational Programming at UConn Brian
Chapman, Ed.D. Director Laura K.M. Donorfio,
Ph.D. Faculty Liaison
University of Connecticut
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OVERVIEW
Interactive

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What You Have Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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INTRODUCTIONS

• Brian Laura
• UConnOLLI Established 2007
• Research I, Land-Grant Institution
• Small Urban Regional Campus
• City of 110,000
• Undergoing Revitalization
• Serves Grads Undergrads
• You!
• Name What OLLI You Are From
• What Do You Hope to Take Away From
• Todays Session

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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What You Have Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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BACKGROUND
Victorian view was Children are to be seen and
not heard American view is Elders are to be
seen and not to be heard --Comment from
Participant Third Age Learning
Conference
was
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BACKGROUND

• Intergenerational Learning became popular in
  the 1970s with the research of Carol Seefeldt
  Sally Newman connecting children seniors.
• Overall Findings
• Seniors had increased feelings of well-being
  life-satisfaction.
• Children had mixed positive negative
  attitudinal outcomes.

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BACKGROUND

• While we still primarily engage in age-segregated
  activities, the graying of our population is
  demanding that we change this.
• Education is making changes
• Lifelong learning
• Continued learningnew public policies have
  created lifelong learning accounts for education
• Mixed-Age College Classroom

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BACKGROUNDWhat we are seeing
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BACKGROUNDTip of the Iceberg
Intergenerational Movement
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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What You Have Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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DEFINING

• Intergenerational Programming
• are activities or programs that increase
  cooperation, interaction or exchange between any
  two generations. They involve the sharing of
  skills, knowledge, or experience between old and
  young.
• --The National Council on Aging

What is missing?
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DEFINING
What is missing?

• Intergenerational Programming

• Multiple generations
• What about old and old
• Community involvement
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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What Have You Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
STEPS THAT WORKED

• Learning Academic Mission
• Aligning OLLI Goals
• Finding Faculty Staff Partners
• Executing
• Evaluating
• Re-working

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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 2006 Opening Event
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 2006 Opening Event
Inspirational!
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 06 Opening Event
Special Travel Course A second look at New
York Citys Five Points Neighborhood. This
course culminates with a day trip to New York
City with UConn Waterbury students!
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Fall 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Researching Waterbury A hands-on course
researching the Brass City from the Early
Industrialization to the 1970s. Training will
be given in conducting oral history interviews,
title searches, newspaper searches, and census
data.
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Fall 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Fall 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
This course format includes an intergenerational
OLLI experience by involving high school students
in aspects of this course. Rosalie Griffin
taught math for 35 years at Crosby High in
Waterbury.
Fall 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Fall 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Who is teaching who?
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Intergenerational Learning This course deals with
the origins of immigration to the American
colonies and the post-colonial United States, and
the interaction of immigrants and their
descendants with the social, political, and
economic life of the nation.
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 08 Math Tricks
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 08 Math Tricks
Teaching Old Pros New Math TricksCalculators
will be provided for use in class and students
from the Waterbury Arts Magnet School will serve
as assistants!
Come and have some fun with Texas Instruments
graphing calculator and learn about math in a new
way.
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 08 Math Tricks
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Fall 08 Musica Scolara
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 08 Musica Scolara
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 08 Math Tricks
Fall 06 Opening Event
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Spring 09 Power of Stats
Fall 08 Musica Scolara
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab
Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
Fall 07 Food For Thought
Fall 06 Opening Event
Fall 08 Math Tricks
Spring 08 Grandparents Calculators
Fall 07 OLLI Café
Spring 09 Power of Stats
Fall 08 Musica Scolara
Fall 07 Hooligans or Hard Workers
Spring 08 One-Day Lab

• Fall 09
• Latinos
• Adulthood Aging

Spring 08 Neighborhood of Memory
Fall 08 Immigrants Shaping America
Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE
As Gubrium and Holstein (2000) point out in their
analysis of social gerontology, the perspective
that is often neglected is that of the everyday
life of older people.

• Fall 09
• Latinos
• Adulthood Aging

Timeline of Activities
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WHAT UCONN HAS DONE

• Other Initiatives
• OLLI Associates
• Academic Interns
• Special Events
• - National speakers
• Faculty Lecture Series
• Community Events
• - Palace Theatre
• - Waterbury Symphony

Bringing Together
Integration
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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What Have You Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What Have You Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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MIND MAPBrainstorming
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Intergenerational Programming FUTURE Suggestions
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OVERVIEW

• Introductions
• Background
• Defining Intergenerational Programming
• What UConn Has Done
• What Have You Done
• The Future Mind Map
• Q A

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QUESTIONS ANSWERS
OLLI at UConn
Knowledge and understanding passing from
generation to generation
Brian.Chapman_at_uconn.edu Laura.Donorfio_at_uconn.edu
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