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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Educational Services, Gerontology, Seniors
Mission: AGHE is an organization composed of more than 300 institutional members--colleges, universities, private businesses, and government organizations that provide education, training, and research programs in gerontology and/or geriatrics. Through conferences, publications, technical assistance, research studies, and consultation with policy makers, AGHE, an educational unit of The Gerontological Society of America, seeks to advance gerontology as a field of study at institutions of higher education. As the only national membership organization devoted primarily to gerontological education, AGHE is in a unique position to develop and sponsor education and training initiatives and to involve students, educators, and businesspeople from across the country in providing resources for older adults and for those who serve them.
Programs: Programs include an annual meeting (attended by approximately 500 educators, students, administrators, and business people); the publication of standards and guidelines for the development of gerontology instruction in institutions of higher education; expert consultation services for developing new gerontology instruction and for expanding or evaluating existing gerontology programs; the publication of a directory of more than 750 gerontology programs in the United States and abroad; personalized database searches of more than 750 gerontology programs (for students seeking education in aging, faculty members seeking information on other aging studies programs, administrators and researchers interested in the scope of gerontological education, and policy makers interested in the training of gerontology and geriatrics professionals); the awarding of scholarships and fellowships to undergraduate, Master's, and doctoral-level students; the publication and online dissemination of resources on careers in aging; on-site internships for graduate students; and the Program of Merit (a designation that can be used to verify gerontology program quality to administrators, to lobby for additional resources to maintain a quality program, to market the program, and to recruit prospective students into the program).
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