hello and good morning jackie how are you good morning sabrina another day and i have to point out community absolutely i have to point out shell so for our viewers who are just turning in for the first time let's just share a little bit about what my two point i was all about  point out community really has resulted me in downsizing kind of going to my journey through out that course a lot of people come to me and say aha you're doing you know what are you doing now because i opted to take every part time and package fully knowing i was not going retire but i had to figure out something something i want to do so as a result of my journey and researching i landed upon this whole idea of baby boomers and what's going to happen to us when we actually do we tire you know research shows we're going to have but before we introduce our guests i wanted to ask if you could just touch on the points that we usually try to cover that we're different peace right to life we all like to point out is not one aspect of your life living or filling life to point out takes upon many aspects  talk about where which in many cases may not be traditional working or abby going back to school we talk about how we talk about family we're laying relationships with significant others we talk about personal growth we talk about finances because that's into her and we also talk about your physical environment which is key for me and love that part because that brings out the interior designers in us in terms about making your home be a reflection of who you are especially like lifelong learning continue and and professional studies at brooklyn command a college and you know as baby boomers lifelong learning is so important right so mary mary relationship i think we've established and we kind of talk about a whole bunch of the different things but lifelong learning is is truly important and very significant i think for us baby boomers correct we don't want to stop learning absolutely yes and i actually you know back pedaling a little bit and giving a broader introduction lifelong learning is a program a large program that book the community college has probably hosted for a long time going back before my years  ok and we're very fortunate that the college has long supported this just part of the college experience right in thinking about having the opportunity to be here today you asked what is one of the goals of your and i was laughing i said well actually the goal of life for learning up for college is is just so much our modest goal is that we want every single person in all of them of county and mercer and beyond right to have an opportunity to come to because we believe as part of continuing education that we actually do have something to offer every single person right but predominantly the part of lifelong learning that is my personal passion is lifelong learning and that doesn't necessarily mean that people that are let's say over fifty but mostly it's right right right because these are the people have the time right now and the opportunity i do it and i focus so frequently on people i'm one of them who you know you have a career to spend certain years of your life focused in this matter i'm maybe raising children or your career focused whatever it is and then later on you get to a exactly but you don't necessarily you're not necessarily degree c right absalom i mean i don't you know want to have for example pursue a masters of fine arts right now because i don't have that personal ambition however you know goal is to present classes that have specific appeal to his population generally we deliver classes in three or four sessions ok because we find that that is a model that works so  and that's just the beginning you know what is so great because it's not just what you're going to learn it's who also is in the room it was you and where it has the potential to maybe take you because i am a product of technically i started my lifelong learning when i was still working because taking to redesign courses at a community college because i was i just needed something fun right i enjoyed doing but after being downsized i said i loved it i think i want to pursue it and i had the opportunity to go on and study in new york but you know what when i look back that was a fantastic time because it was was something i enjoyed doing i had the time to do it and i was doing something i absolutely love doing as a result that's how i met sabrina and he found it doing private so just as you said just saying i now have the time i have an interest in it and now giving yourself the opportunity to  typically now this is something i want to stress is that we in continuing education we don't have to we don't have the same constraints you know traditional i'm going to last as do right so we have a lot more freedoms so we don't have to live within a traditional so master we don't have to have a number you know we have to have krylon i credit i don't think i could be much more nimble ory so we can say you know what we're going to have this class on tuesday morning or friday evening or whatever most of the students that's taking the classes do they have like specific things like which classes might be more popular and what some of that this is about your area this is a really interesting one of the things that we know absolutely from research is that the more education you have in your past the more inclined you are to pursue education and their future ok so again you know we try to make a broad appeal to people of all backgrounds and perhaps you haven't been to college or you have but what we find is we have some highly educated people that come to our classes and it's astounding the things that the breath of interest in what we're able to present just interesting observation and i often tell people this when you if you if you were to walk down the hallway and one of our academic writing things and you walk about typical classroom and you may see life class because people it's more a discussion and more participation and more engaging and being especially i think when you're in a group of people that are like the on the same like like my lizard that you are i mean that really i each year ok when the first bring this is current we publish one for fall for his writing and for some and in this this brochure contains about one hundred different programs a majority of them take place on campus and so there will be you know descriptions of classes and languages and the arts and all different things help find them all that describe and then the other thing that we do we have a really popular we call it tour and talk but these are bus trips and they are two historic cultural events that were out of the entire tri state so we're in philadelphia where we were down in d c where everywhere and these are one day you're there one day we serious and educational problem we're going to see you know a stark sight there will be some kind of a presentation on the bus but we also go to some fabulous places to eat i've seen  just getting to the place i mean you could get your car and get took place but it's the whole experience and out an agenda right so we're not just going to get to the place is going to be a meal very often this is to psych right and often we have access so we are we look to engage people or make them know that we're out here right so whether it is something that you know you want to do for your own self a film study or maybe you want to learn something new  continuing education right fashion so we do also offer things that are more career centered but aren't necessarily degrees c you might want to study quite a culture and your end goal there is certification right you might want to learn to you know we those dreams those talents and skills you put on a shelf but at the same time it's maybe a hobby you know if you were into gardening the horticultural may be a whole new avenue in there and you and again you're in an environment where there are older adults like minded people they love doing the same thing that you're doing and it's it's and it's inspiring as you spoke so eloquently about at our  what are some of the do you have a day event coming we do have a day event coming up in april unable to twenty first we are hosting a women's conference modified and so and we're putting together the details of that now again workshops and we tried to provide that particular event which is not necessarily target towards retirees a lifelong broad we're going down for women of all ages stages and we try to  it's a community college of course ultimately is a nonprofit operation however we as all non profits have to keep their head thinking what we do there are phases that i pay the bill but there are modest i mean our session class could be sixty five dollars oh wow that's because i was like we really do where very much of that mind we want people to come we want them to have the experience and we know that you know people circumstances very right we want to be open access who i mean they spend a considerable chunk of their our recreational funds programs that we offer because it's a value you know sort of one of the things that when we were preparing for the show sabrina and i talked about definitely the fact that there is just fantastic program that you guys have a book there for lifelong learning because again baby boomers you know we have talent schools we're just not going to sit by but at the same time a lot of baby boomers are relocating and i think to have a program such as yours fills two niches if i can say number one it allows you to be in an environment where now you're meeting new people you're in a new environment you're meeting new people or a but it's a joy to say you know i'm moving from here and i'm going right here there are things that i'm still interested in doing oh yeah there's a place i can go so i would imagine our case it's a you know it's a big part of who we are as an institution has placed heavy emphasis on the community there my name and made it important but it is because it provides the provides a whole other level of vibran scholars summer scholars takes place the middle week of august and if you participate you call you register again feels very modest for what you're getting and you come to school for a week and each day you have a choice of morning class ok ok and so you tend of morning session to two and a half hour long literature class writing class but how do you have lunch we provide lunch and then you have an afternoon class and the goes usually for one so it's a full day i mean you're on campus from thirty in the morning until three in the afternoon and you come to class each day monday through friday and it's it's terrific figure out you know a variety that will appeal to all you know so you so you it's like summer camp for yes absolutely fantastic it is yeah so so that way i think i'm going to have to register and there have been you know great friendships there for which is why your point about the vibrancy of being on a probably see the same people attending as well multiple classes food they do form deeper friendship that's one class particularly notable that in that fashion is that there is we have a literature teacher who's been with us now she taught in actually new york city schools were hard came to us in english teacher and she teaches a class or more than one every single season and the genius of what she does  teaches a class on short story right and why this is genius is because you might belong to a book club you might take a look at your class and there you are the night before you didn't finish the book two hundred pages and yet you know how to manage yourself and you're not sure whether you should go particular session that's a matter let's say that's the theme she's been doing this for years and has developed an enormous and loyal following because what has happened is such friendships lasting friendships have come out of that crime so when the session ends a lot of the group they go off their lunch together and of course because of the nature of that particular class when you discuss you have letter insurance  and so it's great to get out and tell about the work that we do get away from the thank you saying yeah thank you guys for what you do with the lifelong learning and like yes we will we will be