Research and Creative Activities
Examples of innovations in pedagogy and current gerontological knowledge are clearly mirrored in faulty members’ vitas. They are also consistent with the Program’s expectations of Creative and Scholarly Activities.
This section is a sampling of how several Gerontology faculty have demonstrated strategies to assure their ongoing gerontology currency and their interest and ability to be innovative in their classrooms during the past review period:
1.) participating (attending and presenting) at various local, regional, and state workshops and conferences and discipline specific national conferences such as The American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging (ASA/NCOA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE),
2.) modifying courses to accommodate both distance education via TV and WebCT.,
3.) modifying courses to add Service Learning (SL) to four (4) of the five (5) Gero core courses, and one Interdisciplinary Core course, allowing students to develop hands on expertise in four different older adults’ service settings, and
4.) being involved in many community agencies as executive Board members that facilitate student placement and learning.
