{"id":166,"date":"2015-06-16T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/?p=166"},"modified":"2021-01-13T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:11:54","slug":"jsus-seniors-college-program-enriches-lives-of-participants-ages-55-and-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/2015\/06\/16\/jsus-seniors-college-program-enriches-lives-of-participants-ages-55-and-older\/","title":{"rendered":"JSU\u2019s Seniors College Program enriches lives of participants ages 55 and older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jackson State University\u2019s College of Education and Human Development\/School of Lifelong Learning is on a mission to enrich the lives of Jackson-area residents 55 years and older through its Seniors College Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participants enhance their knowledge by receiving a positive educational experience from stimulating activities such as social interaction and building new friendships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JSU has made great strides in working with the older adult population in the metro area. With the hiring of a seniors college coordinator and student services specialist in 2014, the program continues to grow. The coordinator, along with the student services specialist, has worked diligently to ensure objectives are met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Professional Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program is the degree-completion program for seniors college participants. Several participants are actively working toward earning their baccalaureate degree. Course offerings include computer literacy, money matters and health and wellness issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Seniors College Program Learning Annex is housed in the School of Lifelong Learning, 3825 Ridgewood Road in Jackson. The School of Lifelong Learning has a professional development center, computer lab, student commons area, library, and classrooms. As well, it is equipped with large meeting rooms where many of the seniors college activities are conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsumsnews.com\/?p=18054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University\u2019s College of Education and Human Development\/School of Lifelong Learning is on a mission to enrich the lives of Jackson-area residents 55 years and older through its Seniors College Program. Participants enhance their knowledge by receiving a positive educational experience from stimulating activities such as social interaction and building new friendships. JSU has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/title3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}