Returning to a local university campus could be a great way to pivot to your next act. A collaborative of universities is sharing model programs that bring later in life students back to school, where they can explore new opportunities as part of intergenerational classes and special programs.

Kater Schaefers, Ph.D., is Executive Director of University of Minnesota Advanced Careers Initiative, Life Course Center.

Topics included:

• The outdated model of “leisure retirement” and how a return to campus can help
• The emergence of this new life stage referred to as Encore Adulthood
• What do traditional students and encore adults have in common; and the advantages encore adults have that younger students don’t
• The coming demographic shift that has colleges worried
• The special intergenerational relationships that college programs can foster
• The emergence of intergenerational sharing of talents as well as living spaces
• Learn to use technology, and the importance to job seekers of being on LinkedIn

Resources:

Stanford Social Innovation Review article by Phyllis Moen and Kate Schaefers

The Nexel Collaborative

U of Minn Advanced Careers Initiative