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Kraly Honored by Lifelong Learners

Thu, May 05, 2011

Kraly Honored by Lifelong Learners

The community steering committee for Lifelong Learning recently honored Ellen Kraly at the conclusion of her five-year term as director of Colgate University’s Upstate Institute.

Irene Brown, chairman of the community group that plans Lifelong Learning courses and oversees day-to-day operations, credited Kraly with reaching out to volunteers to start the program. “Not only did Ellen originate the idea for Lifelong Learning,” said Brown, “she taught our first course.”

A professor of geography in addition to her role as director of Upstate Institute, Kraly launched the Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) with a non-credit course titled “Gorillas in the Bwindi Mist.” In the four years since then, Brown said, LLP has organized nearly 100 non-credit courses and events taught by Colgate faculty and other members of the community on a wide range of topics.

Upstate Institute provides program support for LLP, which is managed by its board of community volunteers and sustained by the annual fees paid by members. Membership is open to any adult, scholarships are available, and courses respond to community
interest in the general areas of personal enrichment, community leadership, life management, societal change, and sustainability.

More information, including a list of current courses, is available at the LLP website.

Photo: BG DeStefano teaching a Lifelong Learning class (criminal and family law in NYS and Madison County) earlier this spring.

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