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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...