Aging is an Asset
highlights the importance of retirees to higher education. In the
spirit of the Harvard study called Reinventing Retirement, Aging is
an Asset has set in motion a win/win movement to gain from the
talents, experience, and presence of this most-educated, active,
healthy, long-lived, and largest population of retirees in America’s
history.
Higher education can act as a catalyst for fostering productive
roles in retirement that tap the experiences of retirees and provide
structure for mutual support systems including:
10 Ways that Retirees Enrich Higher Education
- Advocate for education
- Analysis of issues facing the
university/college
- Tutors and mentors, particularly for at-risk
students
- Contribute to economic development of
community and state
- Teaching and guest lecturers
- Involvement in the ongoing educational
mission
- Provide advice and participation on
development and financial giving
- Advisors on educational policy
- Institutional history
- Directing specific seminars
10 Ways that Higher Education Could Contribute to the Quality of
Life of Retirees
- Providing educational program to enrich
learning
- Social events to help keep connected to
campus
- Easy access to involvement with students
- Educational programs for coping and survival
in retirement
- Demonstrating latest technology to stay
- Clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities and
meaningful roles
- On campus retirement housing
- Wellness programs to foster good health and
social services
- Help establish mutual support or natural
support systems
- Workshops on the transition to retirement
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