A Note From:
IOA Director Victor Marshall
NETWORK MEETING SET FOR GERONTOLOGISTS FROM SMALL AND INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
The Institute has begun an initiative to provide networking, and possible other, support to gerontologists in small independent colleges in North Carolina. In many of the state's 33 independent colleges, especially the smaller ones, there is to be found only a single faculty member in the field of gerontology, or perhaps just two or three. We feel that there might be some benefits to be gained by bringing these people together to discuss issues and problems that might be held in common. If those faculty at the first meeting decide to continue with building a network, the Institute on Aging will do its best to support its activities.
Several years ago the Institute created the North Carolina Gerontology Consortium to link universities in the UNC System in developing and sharing distance education courses in aging. This new network, tentatively called NC-CAN (North Carolina College Aging Network), will set its own agenda and, like the Consortium, it will be asked to develop its own governance structure.
Professor Allison Climo, who teaches gerontology at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, has kindly agreed to take the leadership in this initiative for its first two years, and a first meeting of this network will take place at the Institute on Aging on Friday, February 22nd, from 10 AM to 3 PM. Lunch will be provided.
If you fall in this category of a faculty member from an independent college, and would like to attend, please email Victor Marshall victor_marshall@unc.edu or Alison Climo aclimo@warren-wilson.edu. We will get back in touch with further details. Also, we ask all readers to forward this information to colleagues you know in the independent colleges who teach gerontology courses or otherwise have interests in gerontology.