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[music] [music] Hi everyone. I think we'll get started. I I don't know if there's just be maybe going to be a few less people because of the summertime or um or not. Let me just get my list.

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So, we are setting up, we're all set really right up through December as far as speakers. So, in September, we have Senior Medicare Patrol and Ambulance Billing. That's September 1st. October 6, we have Ruth McNottton of Comfort

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Keepers and Elder Law. Then, November 3rd, we're planning on having Mark Valentine come. And December 1st, we'll have our holiday party in Yankee Swap like we have every year. So today, we're lucky to have Dr. Jennifer Reid from Bridgewater State

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um senior college. It's Bridgewwater State University and she's the director of the senior college program there. So she's going to talk to us all about senior college and what it entails and what kind of offerings that they have through senior college. So Jennifer,

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it's so so nice to have you here. >> Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for hosting me here in Halifax. It's just literally a seven minute drive from my office. So, I love that. So convenient. I drive by here all the

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time. Um so nice to meet you all. Um my formal title is director of corporate professional and community education at um Bridgewwater State University. I'm also the interim director of our cyber range. So, if you're interested, I could

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talk a little bit about that new role or that role that I have. But I'm here today to talk about senior college, which is my most um the the the thing I do at the university that I feel most strongly about and proud of. So, I'm

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going to give you a little bit of a history of the program and tell you how it works and then I'm open to questions. And I'm so glad that we have a member of Senior College in the back. Can you tell me your f first name again? Linda. So, Linda, um, >> to say thank you to Linda. Yes.

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>> Wanted to say thank you to her for suggesting that that you come out. >> Yes. It's funny as you're sitting there, I remember you in that art class on Saturday morning. Um, >> it's a wonderful opportunity. They have classes all over the Southshore and I'm

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so glad that I became a member. It was fun. The classes were only six weeks, no grades, no no homework that you want to do. Uh, and this is a lot of fun meeting people from all over the South. >> Excellent. I swear she's not a paid

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plant to be advertising senior college. Well, first I'll just mention that um lifelong learning programs have been around for a very long time, 50 plus years, probably 60 years. They started with a group of retired faculty at a university in New York City in the 60s

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where they retired but they still wanted to be in community with each other be you know keeping their minds active. So that was the the first one that's been documented and then of course throughout the last you know 50 60 years they've popped up all over and a lot of them are

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associated with a college or a university. Some of you might have heard of something called Ali programs. There's one at UMass Boston and those programs are funded by a national um foundation called Oer. And so those

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programs are um really great and UMass Boston does a a fi a really great job with their program. Um but those programs are funded by the foundation. So they have um you know money usually in like the form of like a million dollar grant. Um so we don't have that

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though at Bridgewwater State University. And the reason why I give that background information is because we have senior college because it's important to us as an institution, specifically to President Clark. Um, so one when he became president, he he's obviously very close with many people in

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our community and there's a a small group of um, uh, retired faculty and Bridgewater residents who kept asking him for years and years to start to have the university offer classes for older adults. And so they really, you know, they just kept after him. And then

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eventually in like 2018, it kind of filtered down to me as a mid-level manager. And, you know, my supervisor was like, can we just make this happen? So, in the fall of 2019, we uh I created a a group of eight courses. And um, of

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course, the biggest challenge is that we don't have physical space on our campus during the day that is close to parking. So, it's a very busy college campus. We have, you know, over 10,000 students. Parking is, you know, I'm sure a lot of you have probably been to the college

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before. Um, if you go by during the day, the parking lots are full and we have a parking garage and all the things. So, we tried to be as creative as we could. And so, we reached out to the Bridgewater Public Library and asked if we could have the classes at their location. And we have a good

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relationship with the library, you know, the university and the college. And they agreed. So, we had that first set of eight classes. Um, I think we had about 80 members that first semester and um, it was great. We were off and running. We had a couple of full-time faculty

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offer classes and then some other folks that I knew were able to offer classes and we were off and excited and it was all great. We had a big nice, you know, welcome event. And then, of course, we all know what happened in February, March of 2020. It sort of changed the whole um, the whole plan that we had.

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And as a result, we ended up thinking about offering classes online. I was the biggest skeptic. I didn't think that although I am a embracer of technology and love technology, I didn't think that the age demographic of older adults would be open to that. And I was wrong.

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I was so wrong. And I love saying that because our members hopped right online with their iPads and their laptops. I do love to give them a hard time because they log in and in their little Zoom square, it's instead of saying, you know, Carol Smith, it says Nana's iPad.

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So, it means that their their grandson or their child has helped them set up their accounts. But I think it's adorable and I love that they come on uh despite the fact that I'll say, "Carol, can I change your name on Zoom, please, to not say Nana's iPad?" And she's like, "Oh, go ahead, change it." So they came

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on and we ended up spending about a year just developing our online program and we had all these Zoom classes and then of course when it was safe to do so we came back in person um and now fast forward to you know the fall semester which is starting right after Labor Day

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we now have a mix where about we have 73 classes this fall uh and about half of them or about maybe 40% of them are offered via Zoom and the rest are offered in person. And we have in-person classes on our campus um in

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the later afternoons and on Saturdays. We have um in Friday afternoons. We have lots of classes on Friday afternoons on our campus because that's a time when the space is available. And we also have classes in Bridgewater Public Library, East Bridgewater, um, YMCA, East

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Bridgewater Senior Center, Sandwich Senior Center, Plymouth Center for Active Living, Norton Senior Center, Hingham, and I think I caught everything. So, you'll see we've really expanded throughout the region. Um, and so folks are able to attend classes both

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in person and on Zoom. And I'll just go over a couple of the kind of nuts and bolts of how Senior College works. First and foremost, we offer scholarships, no questions asked. The registration fee per semester is $95, but anyone that requests a scholarship gets one. You

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don't have to fill out anything personal related to your income. It's just a self-disclosure. So, we usually give away between 20 and 30 scholarships per semester. Um, so please be in touch with us. If you have a friend that maybe you think will enjoy it, but maybe they're on a fixed income, send them my way.

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We're happy to do that. And then we have the $95 fee. And for the fee, you can take up to seven courses. So, a lot of our members take somewhere between like three and four. But we do have a lot, probably like a

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third of our membership takes seven classes. And then we have a small group of people that actually take more than that. So, if you want to take more than seven, you have to pay $15 a course. Um, and I'm just really proud of of our

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offerings. We have um Oops, that's okay. We have we have um courses in almost every discipline that you can imagine. So, we have courses in physics, in writing, in literature, in current

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events. Um, our our political discussion group course has been running since 2020. It's incredibly popular. um that's meets weekly over the course of the entire semester. Um we have lots of political science classes, we have hands-on art classes. This fall we have

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a ballet class, a dance class, a watercolor class. So there's really something for everyone. And I'll I'll show you um in a moment how you can um view all of our courses. But Linda was right. There's no tests, no grades, no prerequisites. You don't have to have a

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background in uh college at all to attend our classes. Anyone can attend. Um you don't have to be an alum. You don't have to live in Massachusetts. I you don't have to be a specific age. So there's no age. People always call me up

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and say, "Well, I don't know if I'm old enough." And I'm like, "Oh, that's really cute, but you you're old enough. If you're asking you're old enough." Um so we do have a few people in their 50s. We have a couple of people maybe once or twice in their 40s. Um, but you know, most of our classes are during the day.

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So, it is geared towards older adults. It is a little frustrating because there are sometimes people who are still working and then they're frustrated that the classes during the day, but it's, you know, the program is intended to be for retired people. Um, so keep that in mind. The one thing I always like to

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point out about Zoom because I know sometimes people are a little nervous about how that works. Um the the classes take place on Zoom which is a plat a video platform and you um there's no mandate to put your camera on. There's

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no mandate to put your microphone on. Of course a lot of our members do but you don't have to. So you can just you know listen along and participate in a way that feels comfortable to you. Um, the other thing is most of our Zoom classes are actually recorded. They happen live.

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So, if you have a class that's at 5:00 pm on a on a Monday night, you you log in at 4:55 and you go to the class on Zoom. But if it's recorded, that means that you have the ability to go back and

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watch it later. Um, you can also like if you missed it, if you're watching your grandchild or if you have a trip, you can get caught up. You can also watch any class that you're not enrolled in. So even though you can only take seven classes as a member, you have access to

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the entire video um library at your disposal. So a lot of our members love that. They take advantage. They they can log in and and also if someone's talking too much, you can just fast forward through their comments if you just want to hear someone else talk. So that's really good. Um uh I wanted to show our

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website a bit. So if folks are interested and they want to know more um the first thing to do would be to go to our website and just join our email list so that you get communications from me um that would be the the great the first place to start. Um the other piece would

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be to create an account. You can do that for free on our website. Um so you can do that. I'm going to sign in and just show you um a bit about how if you're curious and you want to know, you know, more. You can see now that I'm signed in because

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it says welcome test Jennifer. So that's how you'll know you're actually signed in. Registration for our previous members opened yesterday. We had as of this morning we had 337 people sign up just on that first day. Um last semester we had 558

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members. our goal is to have a thousand members. You might ask, well, why do you want to have more members? And the reason why we want to have more members is because we feel very strongly that um or we feel and it's shown by evidence is

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that lifelong learning really does improve aging and improve health outcomes for older adults. So, um I see on a daily basis the the social connections that are made in senior college. Um people have made new

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lifelong friends um through classes. We have a really popular um group of courses on the ukulele. Ukulele is like really in right now. I don't know if you're in that, but th those ukulele people, they are friends. They are meeting up. They have jam sessions. Um,

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one day they came to my office and they had gone to get their student ID. They were playing on the quad. I was like, "What is happening? This is the coolest thing I've ever seen." And then they were telling me about one of the members of the group. Her sister was in the hospital and the whole group went and played the ukulele for the sister in the

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hospital. I mean, I can't make this stuff up, but it really shows that people are craving not just the learning that takes place and the intellectual engagement, but also that outlet of meeting new people. I mean, I don't know about you, it's hard to meet new new

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friends. Oh, that's my that's someone calling my um sorry about that. Calling the the shared line there. Um so, it really is quite uh meaningful and powerful and that's why we offer it. And so, the more members we have, the more

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courses we can have. And right now, we're kind of at this like pressure point where um you know, 73 classes is sort of like just enough. And so I want to have a hundred classes. I want to have multiple sections of classes that are really popular so that I make sure

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that everyone that is um that wants to participate in senior college has the ability to. So okay, I digress. So here's our website. Um the most important thing would be of course you want to know more about the courses. There's a couple of ways that you can

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look at the courses. Of course you can click on all courses. You can search by day of the week, by location. So, for instance, if you were here in Halifax, I know East Bridgewwater is right nearby. If you clicked on the East Bridgewwater Senior Center, you'd see the courses

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that we have here. Um, this is a very popular course on the Holocaust. There's a course on um this instructor is incredibly popular, too. Beyond the Shadow, the Wonder of Massachusetts bats. Um Joanne Burns uh is an

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incredible wildlife rescuer. Um, she actually brings her red tail hawk, Coco, to class with her. He's a co-instructor. >> I do want to say that talking with other people like she is very popular because they always talk

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>> crazy. >> Yep. She's one of the popular ones that you know I hear a lot with other people talking and also like I tended to stay away from the political courses but

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it's unbelievable how many people say how great the political discussions are. >> Yeah. >> I don't remember the professor's name but he was actually on channel as one of the experts for a topic. >> Yeah. Um so so that

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>> yeah probably Brian Frederick he's a you know tenur uh political science professor um so many of our faculty are either current faculty part-time faculty we also have some faculty from other institutions people retired um so you

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get access to an incredibly um talented group of scholars in these classes >> sure >> yes She does courses. >> Yes, she does courses on transcendentalism. They're incredibly popular. I get like three-page emails on

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how incredible her courses are. And she invites authors that write about transcendentalists. This is like Walt Whitman and Thorough. And I mean I it's not um I feel like when I'm retired, that's what I'll do. I'll read about that. I just don't have the time. But

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her classes are incredibly impo popular. We love Ellen. Um, you can see one of the ukulele classes here in East Bridgewwater and then this another ukulele class here in East Bridgewater. So, you can search by location location. Um, and then if you want to just see like, well, Jen, what are all the

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classes? You can click on this uh course catalog here. And this is my one of my favorite um tools here. This is the quick glance schedule. If you click on that, um there we go. It shows you just a

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snapshot of all the classes. So this is the classes. They start on September 9th. You can see yoga, Spanish, you know, um, you know, Churchill, secret armies, history, uh, language, we have Spanish, we have French, we've had American Sign Language, we, you know, we

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have watercolor, etc., etc. So I will just kind of scroll that a little slowly so you have a general Yeah. Um, and you can see most classes, like Linda said, are six weeks long. Most are um, and they're offered like on a staggering basis. So, if you don't

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join us on September 1st, that's okay. There's courses that start midsepptember, late September, October, and even November. So, every semester they're rolling along. Um, this semester, we have so many great classes on women in history. And I feel like we

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could you could almost just come to senior college and minor in like women's studies. And it's so cool. We have this women in power um this class that I um there was another class with Renee Summers that is incredibly popular. I looked yesterday at 65 people enrolled

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in the class. Okay, so I'm scrolling. Don't mean to give anyone um seasick history of presidential elections. Um the Kennedys part two that's down in Sandwich that we had an incredibly popular first course on the Kennedys. The race to space from Mont Gier to

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Artemis. Uh Ron Reynolds is a retired Bridgewater physics teacher. He is in his late 80s and he is incredible. He has the most loyal following. He's been with us for probably five years and offers um lots of classes in uh

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photography and then physics. So that's a bit about the um course catalog. Um, and you can also read the full course catalog here, which is a, you know, 17page document that h or 43page document that has the full description. So, there's lots of different ways that

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you can learn more about what we have to offer. I also wanted to talk a little bit about like sort of the extra stuff that we do. So, as a member of Senior College, you actually in living here in Halifax would be something you might want to take advantage of. Um, you can

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get a student ID at the university for no extra cost. You can get a parking sticker. You can go to our fitness center for free, no extra cost. Not even faculty or staff get that benefit. So, that's something to really consider if

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you're interested and you're local. Right here, we have a beautiful fitness facility um that you might want to check out. We also have um other benefits like you can get a Bridgewwater State um email address and that gives you access to our library services and part of that

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is um the university has a benefit where you can get access to the New York Times app subscription. So that's that's uh a lot of our members take advantage of that because we know these like news subscriptions can get quite expensive. Um and then we also do a lot of things

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outside of the classroom. So uh we have membereddriven meetups. Um trying to think last semester uh we went to the Buddhist temple in Reum. So we have a member who meets you know uh know knows the folks over there and just decides on a day and everyone meets up and goes

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together which is nice. We had a member um and that was free and just open to the members. We also had a member at the uh a member event at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton. If you haven't been there, you have to go there. It was the most amazing exhibit of handcrafted

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furniture, um, wood furniture that was crafted by incarcerated individuals. And again, it's just fun to like it's fun to go to a museum, but it's also more fun to go like with people, you know what I mean? And like know people will be there. So, both of those were events

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were free and open to the public. We met up at the movies in Kingston and we watched the Downtown Abbey movie. Like just fun things like that. And then um two years ago we started actually an international travel program um based on a popular course on Irish literature. Um

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one of our faculty members Paul Failen is from Belfast. He's like our own Belfast man and he's been here in the states for years but he's an expert on contemporary Brit uh Irish literature. And so we just as a joke one day I said to my someone in the class actually um

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said can can we go to Ireland? And he he called me up and he was like, "Can we go to Ireland?" And I was like, "Oh, haha." And so I asked my boss, I said, "Can we go to Ireland?" And he was like, "Yes, of course. You can go to Ireland. We're Bridgewater State University. We send students abroad all the time. Thousands of students go abroad all over the

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world." He's like, "We can do an Ireland trip." So we have a full-time director who, you know, I worked with. We chose a tour company. We included everything. So all people had to do was basically pay the money and show up at the campus. and we took a bus together and went to the

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airport and it was just wonderful. We went to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. We had the best time. We met authors there who we had read their books and so it was just really powerful and meaningful. We were there at the pe you know we got to see the peace walls and um and all the great

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historical um sites there that you know f that were as a result of the troubles in Belfast. And then this May we went to Scotland for nine days and that was incredible. We also went with Paul Failen. We just love him so much. He's super fun. And we did a class on

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Scottish literature. Um but we just do all the fun things too. Like it's not just you know we do museums but we also go to the Johnny Walker factory and you know pubs and all the fun things. And then coming up this May, next May we're going to France and Switzerland with uh

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Dr. Carolene Stanley who grew up u bicultural in America and in France and she's fluent in French and so we she developed a really unique and special um trip where we'll be in Paris and be doing um sort of wonderful sites in Paris and outside of Paris and then

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we're going to the Champagne region. We're going to do a day trip to Germany and then we're going to end in Switzerland um at Mount Riggy and having like a whole experience up and down the mountain. So we're doing fun things. I feel like that's a lot of me talking. I know I've missed stuff. I do want to mention that I'm also the interimm

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director of BSU's cyber range. I know that might be of relevance or interest to this group. If you'd ever like to come and visit the cyber range, I'd love to host you. It's a $3 million gamified um interactive beautiful um uh like

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learning, you know, kind of u space that's incredible. We have a new bachelor's degree in cyber security. We have a master's degree in cyber security. And we also uh work very closely with local governments, state governments um providing cyber security

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readiness training. And so that's another part of my job that um I'm happy to engage with this group on if that's of interest. You know, at the minimum I would say just maybe one day we come and I show you the range. I think you'd think it was really cool. All right.

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Lots of talking. Ask question. Sorry. Go ahead. >> What is the cyber range? So, the Cyber Range is a um it's a basically a really fancy state-of-the-art uh training laboratory. It has 24 workstations and 18 foot um screen. Um it's fully

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gamified, though, so you sort of have to see it to actually the the photo on the front of the um brochure is taken in the cyber range, so that gives you a sense of sort of what it looks like. But there's a control room in the back. The desks vibrate, the lights shake, and

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it's basically um the most advanced of its kind training facility at any college or university in the in the country right now. It's incredibly beautiful. >> What's the training for? >> The training is to help state governments, businesses, nonprofits

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improve their cyber security. So, yeah, cyber security is, you know, a multi-billion dollar threat to businesses right now. more companies to come and learn how to protect. >> Yeah, we work a lot with you know like a a bank will come to us and we'll bring

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in their seuite of executives and they'll go over their business continuity plan. So every inst, you know, most businesses or towns, like you might have heard just recently, I forget what town it was here on the Southshore. I mean, a town was scammed out of like $200,000. Like, you know, someone hits

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the wrong button. It's all driven by people just making human errors, but there are bad actors out there that are looking to attack us as individuals, but also our communities, local government, state government, etc. >> All right.

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So close there. >> Yeah, I think so. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we have an observatory. You can find out about it. The best place is to go to Facebook. They have a Facebook page. We also have a senior college has a Facebook page. That's a good place to go if you're on Facebook. Um, yeah, the

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observatory is incredible. We've done a senior college tour of the observatory. We have beautiful archives. Bridgewwater State has the largest collection of remember the movie um with Penny Marshall. What's the movie uh about the female baseball league?

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>> League of her own. So Bridgewwater has acquired all of the artifacts from the the players from that league. So we have uniforms and just incredible u materials. So you can visit our archive if you have the opportunity. We've had a course in our archive before. It's

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incredible. It's like out of a movie. We have a a letter signed by John F. Kennedy the day he was the day he died. Um so yeah, it's incredible. Incredible. >> They're in the Maxwell Library. >> Yep. And another but we've had classes

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like the archavist has taught classes in senior college, but it's just a it's a great way to just you know being part of senior college is a great entryway to making the university accessible. Like that's the goal. We want all of you to feel comfortable on our campus to we are the regional public university. Like it

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is a resource not just to students enrolled in our traditional programs but to everyone in our community in the Southshore and beyond. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's gorgeous. >> We're at such a low

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>> Yes. Yes. Great question. So the university because um we feel this is so important funds the program you know the if you do the math you know we pay a very small stipen to our instructors like $650.

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So we basically make just enough to pay our instructors but then of course all the other expenses my salary my staff salaries is funded by the college of continuing studies by you know president Clark you know realizing that the good thing is the college of continuing

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studies is um revenue positive in other ways you know in other programs that I run so we sort of have like a bit of a Robin Hood model you know we we have revenue positive programs that we use to sort sort of fund this initiative because it's so important. But we would

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love to be, you know, financially uh sustainable sort of on our own. Um but we'll get there and there's no there's no huge rush to do that. Um I think the biggest thing is around the quality of the the courses that we deliver and then the accessibility. So if you looked at

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um there's a program at uh Cape Cod Community College um called the Academy for Lifelong Learning. If you looked at UMass Boston's program and then there's one at Fitchburg State 2, you'll notice our program is incredibly um lowpriced compared to those programs.

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So that's just a testament to BSU and the importance of this program because I I'll say, "Well, we could just charge more." And like all my bosses are like, "No, no, no, no. We're not doing that." So, um we might raise the fee next year a little bit, but if you looked at any most other programs have like a $200

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enrollment fee. you can only take four classes and each class costs like 5060 $70. So you that's like $500 to take four classes whereas we have $95 and you can take seven classes >> and I mean the $95 is the flat fee. Yep.

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And there so there's no additional fees other than if you want to take more than seven classes it's $15 a class and we do have one fee this semester. Um we're offering a majong I can never say that. Majong. How do you say that? It's a game like a little tile strategy game.

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>> Um, ma jang. Maong. Maong. Thank you. Um, ma jang. We do we do have a fee for that class and the $35 fee. Um, but that's the only class still very you can't you can you can't take a maong class for less than like $200. So, it's still very just basically

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a nominal fee to cover the instructor's time. >> [sighs and gasps] >> I know I'm going to get in my car and be like, I didn't tell them about this or that or this or that. >> Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. [snorts] >> What subject matter did you get your

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PhD? >> Oh, thank you for asking. Um, I just got my PhD two years ago, so I appreciate it. Took me 10 years because I worked full-time. Um, my uh my PhD is in higher education. I got it from UMass Boston and my dissertation focused on racism

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and um whiteness in higher education. And so I actually teach that now in the doctoral program at UMass Boston and I also teach um English and creative writing at another university as well on the side too. Yeah. So thank you for asking. Appreciate that.

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>> Oh, thank you. Yes. It's the happiest day of my life. It really was. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't I was I was one of those people where you get to a point where you kind of stop and then it's really hard to get back and you're you have to prove yourself to your chair person and uh it was very very difficult and it was

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the absolute happiest day of my life the day I defended my defense. Yep. Thank you for asking. >> You have some local trips too. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Fuller Museum. >> Fuller Museum. We've done like um you

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know we're trying to make most of our local trips be free you know that's the that's important to us. So we've we have done some like sometimes a class a lot of times a class will have an experience attached to it. So like the birding class will meet up on Saturday at the

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Tid Marsh reservation in Plymouth um and and have a bird watching or um like the photography class will be mostly on Zoom but then it will meet up and do like a photography day where they go to a local place to take pictures. Um we did do a paid event to the um heritage gardens

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museums and sandwich where we you know had it be like us I think it was $100 and we went to the museum and then we all went to lunch after. So, we do those things, but we are also planning um to do some more um trips that are like not as big as an international trip. So,

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we're working on a Broadway trip. Yeah. So, like three nights in New York City and like two or three Broadway shows. We have a very popular um instructor, Lisa Flareity, who offers courses on musicals. She's an expert on musicals. She teaches theater. So, we're looking

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forward to that um maybe this fall, but if not, definitely in the spring. And then I mean it's like the opportunities are endless. We'd love to we're hiring. Thank god I I've been down a staff person since October, but we have someone starting next Monday. So with

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her being back on board um or with a person being in the role and it's been vacant for so long, we really will have the capacity. You know, we'd love to do like Boston trips. You know, we have all these great ideas of doing museum trips and things like that. Anything else? [sighs]

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questions. >> You're in Halifax. You have to come and join us. If you want a scholarship, I'd be happy to grant it to you. U my email address or you can just email us here on the website or um where is our where is our email? Contact us. Um the best thing

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to do would be to email us at bsu senior collegebridgew.edu. That would probably >> I brochure. Yep. Just send us an email. That's a shared inbox and my team is small but mighty. It's me, Darlene and Linda and we get back to you very very

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soon. So feel free to reach out and I would strongly encourage you to if you're thinking about joining and you want a scholarship or you want to pay to join, do it today because um membership to the general public opens tomorrow. But because I'm here today, I hope this

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isn't live. I don't think it is. Um you'll have access to all the classes that you want. You can I mean the the general public doesn't realize the website is live. Yeah. Yeah. But now you know. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I know. It's

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good. >> That's good. And Linda, don't tell anyone that I told people they could actually sign up today. [laughter] Excellent. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. It was so nice to meet you all. [applause] Thank you. I hope

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