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Student living in a strategic location.
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Services available
for older students
By Guy Maynard
Of the Emerald
When Joanne Lawson came to
the University as a transfer from
Lane Community College in 1976
she felt out of place. She was over
25.
“The University is a very fearful
place for older students. You feel
like you don't belong," says
Lawson.
Then she discovered Lifelong
Learning Services, a University of
fice created to aid older students.
"Lifelong Learning Services was
the first indication that I belonged
here. It was 'my' place," says
Lawson.
Lawson, a mother of five who at
tended a speech class with her
son Benjamin during her senior
year, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in
1979. She is now a graduate stu
dent in industrial organizational
psychology.
Call them 'older-than average,'
'non-traditional/ or 're-entry'
students, people over the age of
25 make up a growing portion of
the University population. In 1976,
15 percent of. University
undergraduates were over 25. By
spring term of 1983 that figure in
creased to 21 percent.
Lifelong Lear
ning Services
tries to help
older students
find their way
around cam
pus, to direct
them to
University ser
vices and pro
grams, and to ease personal pro
blems which are usually of a dif
ferent nature from those faced by
younger students.
"Our main function is to offer
options, referrals, ideas," says
Judy Wood, former student pro
gram co-ordinator of Lifelong
Learning Services.
An "Older-than-Average
Students Information Faire" held
during orientation week helps in
troduce older students to the
University. This informal gather
ing gives new students, or
perspective students, a chance to
meet faculty members, depart
ment heads, and other older
students.
"It was a nice feeling to realize
there were all these people older
than 18, that I'm not the only one
here. I made some lasting
friends," says Wood of the faire
she attended when she first
returned to the University.
This year's faire will held Sept.
20 at Cerlinger Hall Alumni
Lounge from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30
p.m. Interested people should
contact Lifelong Learning Ser
vices, located in Oregon Hall.
Lifelong Learning Services, with
its slogan "A Place to Start," tries
to encourage older students to
'The University is a
fearful place for older
students'
— Joanne Lawson
seek financial aid, to take advan
tage of child-care and housing op
portunities available through the
University and to sort out their
priorities to find some workable
balance between school, work
and family.
Although students over 25 are
divided about evenly between
men and women, women tend to
be older and are less likely to have
the support of a spouse in the
home. The particular needs of
older women students led Lawson
and another woman student to
form Women in Transition, a per
sonal support group.
Many of the older students at
tending the University are going
through some mid-life change,
whether because of a changing
family situation or because of the
desire or need for new skills. The
advisers at Lifelong Learning Ser
vices strongly encourage career
planning.
A career planning workshop
specifically aimed at mid-life
career changes will be conducted
from Oct. 10 through Oct. 31 at no
charge to University students.
Career planning "includes not
only what you do for a living but
also planning in the areas of rela
t i o n s h i p s ,
leisure and
how to find self
fulfillment,''
says Theresa
Ripley, who
will
the workshops?;!#
Similar
workshops in
the past have been very successful
for non-traditional students, says
Debbie Chereck of the Career
Planning and Placement Service.
Some of the difficulties older
students have when they first
come on campus come from a
lack of confidence because their
study skills are rusty and they
have not been in an academic en
vironment for awhile.
But older students tend to do
very well at the University
because "the older students bring
a lot of skills they don't realize
they have — a certain wisdom that
age brings,” says Lawson. ^
Getting over the initial psyclW
and bureaucratic hurdles is the
hardest part.
“Just hang in there and tough it
out for the first couple of months.
It's hard, but things will begin to
fall in place," says Lawson to
those just beginning the
challenge that she met so
successfully.
And older students should find
out the resources that the campus
offers to make their older than
average years here easier and
more fulfilling, say the people at
Lifelong Learning Services.
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