Like many people with a social conscience, I often engage in a struggle between my desire to get involved in the community and my highly refined ability to procrastinate. Robynn Pease, a friend and student peer introduced me to Bruce Burris, who is the director of College for Living. Bruce explained that the goal of this organization is to grant a creative educational experience to adults with disabilities.
Volunteers can design and teach a course of their choosing or can volunteer to assist instructors.
This sounded like a creative and interesting idea. Students are offered a range of courses to choose from and instructors are given freedom and opportunity to create a course. And what a great experience it turned out to be. First of all, the time commitment is perfect for those with time constraints or for first-time volunteers who are timid or apprehensive. With five sessions that meet for one hour a week and about half an hour of preparation for each meeting, the total time commitment worked out to seven or eight hours total.