Education is aimed at making a living - life long learning is aimed at making a life. Aids available to her at the community college helped her to re-integrate and achieve her goals. She provided a story of a sixty-seven year old senior who received a JTPA award. This woman began school later in life to learn to read and went on to utilize her skills in working with at-risk students. She enjoyed working with the young children in the program and also had the opportunity to learn how to use computers.
Work needs to be done in meeting needs.
Education helps people move more smoothly through the aging process. Help people look at what is left - not what is gone. Life and learning are becoming more and more technology driven and it will become more important in the 21st Century to be engaged in the right activity at the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. An overview was given of an interactive, intergenerational video conference between Mesa Community College and Chandler Gilbert Community College where values and vision were shared. It was described as a very positive experience and received positive evaluations from the participants.