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(Wolfville,
NS) - Acadia University today announced a significant
reduction to its fees for seniors to audit credit courses through
the Acadia Lifelong Learning Centre, part of the University’s
Continuing and Distance Education program.
“This price reduction
creates an excellent opportunity for senior adults to pursue their
academic interests and become involved in a university setting,”
says Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, president of Acadia University.
“We’re thrilled to be able to offer these stimulating courses and
seminars to this important group in our local community.”
The Acadia Lifelong
Learning (ALL) Centre was established in 2000 as a way of sharing
the intellectual and cultural resources of Acadia University with
the growing population of senior adults. Courses currently offered
are non-credit and are provided on campus and at community
locations. The new audit program gives seniors access to select
university-credit courses on an audit basis at a significantly
reduced rate.
“Auditing courses is
another way that the ALL Centre is improving the mental and physical
health of older adults,” says Mike Sweeney, Chair of the Board of
the ALL Centre. Dr. Nancy Van Wagoner, Director of Continuing and
Distance Education, concurs. “We’re happy to continually find ways
to build bridges with the community.”
Each individual who
registers as a member of the ALL Centre receives several advantages,
including discounted course fees, free lectures, participation in
special events, electronic lists of events, and Acadia community
announcements. Courses start the week of July 5 and July 26 and
include subjects in business, English, sociology, nutrition and
philosophy. Fall and winter courses will also be available. Members
of the ALL Centre who are 60 and older will be able to audit an
Acadia credit course for a special fee of $180. Non-members, ages 60
and up, may audit courses for $195.
For more information,
visit
http://conted.acadiau.ca and follow the links to the ALL Centre.
Or call Continuing and Distance Education at 902-585-1434 between
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Enrolment for students
auditing a course is pending availability of space in the desired
course. The deadline for registration is June 30, 2004.
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