The online community of innovative "Encore Colleges" that are pioneering new ways to prepare baby boomers for second (or third!) careers in education, health care and the nonprofit sector. This is an opportunity to share your successes and challenges and learn from colleagues who are also pioneering new ways for adults 50+ to transition to their encore careers -- work that matters in the second half of life.
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Discovering What's Next Career Counseling With Career Moves at JVS
Posted 05/10/2011 - 11:33:44am by Stephen Anfield
Take advantage of Discovering What's Next's one-on-one free consultation service provided by Career Moves at JVS.
Start: 06/16/2011 - 9:30 a.m.
End: 06/16/2011 - 11 a.m.
Discovering What's Next Career Counseling With Career Moves at JVS
Posted 05/10/2011 - 08:16:41am by Stephen Anfield
Take advantage of Discovering What's Next's one-on-one free consultation service provided by Career Moves at JVS.
Start: 05/19/2011 - 9:30 a.m.
End: 05/19/2011 - 11 a.m.
This audio seminar, created through the Encore College Initiative, provides tips to help community college administrators adapt programs to the unique needs of 50-plus students interested in encore careers. In this seminar, two community college administrators share their experiences creating programs that successfully train encore learners and place them in jobs.
To see a tip sheet on program adaptations for plus 50 encore learners, click here.
Articles and publications detailing the emerging role of community colleges in helping boomers transition to encore careers. http://www.civicventures.org/communitycolleges/resources.cfm.
Tuition waivers for Encore Careers retraining
01/12/2009 - 12:47:32pm
The Community College of Allegheny County and two other colleges in the Pittsburgh area have announced they will offer tuition waivers for displaced workers. The tuition waivers apply to five high demand areas, three of them in healthcare fields: emergency medical technicians,certified nurse-aide training, and phlebotomy.
- by: Judy Goggin | More >
Older Worker Demonstration Grants
01/05/2009 - 10:24:58am
From a cursory read of the full announcement, it appears that colleges are eligible for these grants. A relationship with the local Workforce Investment Board is highly recommended.
- by: Judy Goggin | More >
Preparing boomers for encore careers
10/07/2008 - 03:42:38pm
A new report profiles 10 community colleges that are attracting experienced workers, engaging local employers and helping prepare boomers for meaningful work in the second half of life.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
ENCORE TEACHERS: Career-switchers are key to solving teaching shortage
09/23/2008 - 03:18:46pm
There aren’t enough young people in the pipeline to fill the estimated 2.9 million to 5.1 million more teachers who will be needed by 2020. That means school districts will have to embrace career-changers, who, as it happens, are also embracing teaching.
"Tapping the potential of mid-career professionals and older adults seeking 'encore careers' isn't easy," reports The Christian Science Monitor. "But education policymakers increasingly see it as essential."
The good news is that a surprising 42 percent of college-educated adults ages 24 to 60 would consider teaching as a career, according to a survey by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, N.J.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
ENCORE COLLEGES: Adult education needs an overhaul
08/01/2008 - 01:35:15am
Colleges need to focus on training adults to fill workforce shortages in professions such as teaching and nursing, as well as skilled trades like plumbing and carpentry, says the Indianapolis Star.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
More community colleges launch encore programs
05/14/2008 - 11:26:07am
Fifteen innovative community colleges are designing programs to help older adults focus on new careers and continued engagement, thanks to a $3.2 million “Plus 50” grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
ENCORE COLLEGES: Back to school for Broward boomers
02/28/2008 - 02:36:24pm
As interest in encore careers increases, a community college in South Florida has launched a counseling program aimed at older residents who want to do “purpose-driven” work.
In an article distributed by Tribune Media Services, Jerry Enloe of Broward Community College in Fort Lauderdale, says the three-hour “Encore” seminar is attracting a “real mix” of mature adults: “We’re seeing a lot of people who may be stressed out with their current jobs or were downsized. Others just don’t want to quit working and are looking to try something new or give back to the community through volunteering. Some boomers are retiring and realizing that it doesn’t work financially, or they just want to stay busy.”
The program is one of 10 funded through a Community College Encore Career Project of Civic Ventures, which is working to redefine the second half of life as an opportunity to do meaningful work.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
AARP FOUNDATION: New center to champion nursing in America
02/08/2008 - 05:00:27pm
Each year nursing schools turn away thousands of qualified applicants because they don’t have enough skilled faculty members to teach them. By 2020, the American health care system is expected to face a shortage of more than one million nurses.
Trying to expand the pipeline, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to the AARP Foundation to pursue an aggressive agenda to elevate the visibility of the nursing shortage.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
