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Event Recording: The Multigenerational Campus: Six Big Ideas Changing Higher Ed
What if we… Turned unused campus space into hubs for intergenerational innovation? Sent two generations in one family to college at the same time, debt-free? Redefined who holds knowledge and how it is shared? Moved classrooms into communities? Leveraged the arts to...
Taking Cogenerational Co-Leadership to the Next Level
We’re taking cogenerational co-leadership to the next level. Meet the new co-chairs of our board of directors: David Hsu and Raymond A. Jetson. Both have served on the board for years. We are so grateful to outgoing Board Chair Susan Gianinno, who led our transition...
What If Higher Education Worked for All Ages?
Today CoGenerate and the Stanford Center on Longevity announce six visionary ideas that promise to transform campuses into thriving centers for intergenerational collaboration and learning, while fostering economic opportunity, lifelong learning, and institutional...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Community Learning Labs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Marius Boboc thinks that if higher education institutions truly want to serve their community, they must think beyond the four walls of a lecture hall – and move into neighborhoods where people actually live and work. As Dean of the College of Education at the...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Live Together, Inc.
When the interim president of Frostburg State University in Western Maryland asked Jane Rohde to tour an empty residence hall in 2023, he posed a question facing many rural campuses across the country: “What do I do? Do I tear it down? Refurbish it?” Rohde – founder...
Big Idea Winner: Humans of VUU: Conversations Across Generations
At Virginia Union University (VUU), an HBCU founded in 1865 to educate formerly enslaved people, Dr. Hollee Freeman had a powerful observation: The university is full of untapped knowledge. That knowledge, she feels, doesn’t come in the form of lectures or textbooks...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Hope Chicago
Aaron Kuecker thinks the economics of higher education are broken. As CEO of Hope Chicago, he's on a mission to fix that. Founded in 2022, the nonprofit sends two generations — a student and a parent, guardian or grandparent — to college at the same time, offering...
BIG IDEA WINNER: The Cogeneration Lab at Bennington College
What would it look like to design a truly co-generational campus from the ground up? Laura Walker is determined to find out. After five and a half years as president of Bennington College, Walker stepped down to focus primarily on a single goal: determine how to...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Art Speaks at Penn State
Adult education programs and near-campus retirement communities often bring older adults to campuses full of 18- to 22-year-old students, but the two groups rarely get the chance to talk, share opinions, or learn from one another. An intergenerational duo is out to...