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September
14, 2005
DH 05 RH10
Contact: Russ Hudson,
Media Relations Coordinator
(310) 243-2455/2001
rhudson@csudh.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
CSUDH Program Bringing Education to Older, Retired Citizens Funded
CARSON,
Ca. - The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the OLLIonline
project at
CSU Dominguez Hills have been given $100,000 funding again
this year by the Bernard Osher Foundation, according to College
of Extended and International Education (CEE) Dean Margaret
Gordon.
Gordon said official notice of the funding has been received.
OLLIonline is an innovative lifelong learning program designed
for mature and retired adults who may not be able to travel to
college campuses where such programs are traditionally offered;
CEE also offers an on-campus program called Omnilore, also funded
by the Bernard Osher Foundation. The fifth OLLIonline series, “American
Film, Television and Culture of the 1950s,” begins today,
September 14, at 1 p.m. Programs are broadcast live from CSUDH
studios on cable channel LA36 and on the World Wide Web at www.OLLIonline.tv.
“An aging-in-place movement is emerging, where there’s an attempt
to keep senior citizens in their homes for longer periods of time,” Gordon
notes. “What we have here is a program that is designed to meet the needs
of seniors who are isolated or who are living in retirement homes and don’t
have ready access to a university campus. We’re actually bringing it to
them and giving it the sense of a community. I think we did the right thing at
the right time.”
“We’ve had a lifelong learning group since 1990 with Omnilore,” she
says. “When the Bernard Osher Foundation sent out a request for proposals,
we decided to do something a little bit different and try to replicate the
experience that our Omnilore people had in their learning society by using
[electronic] media.”
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