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EMERITUS ASSEMBLY, CSC-AAUP

This is a brief account from cecilia Welna of the variety of programs that have served the members of the Emeritus Assembly, AAUP Connecticut Conference well since the assembly was founded twenty years ago in 1986. For her commentaries on the programs in the past, please go to LookBack at our test site: http://www.geocities.com/aaupctem .

A SAMPLER

by Cecilia Welna

The American Association of University Professors, Emeritus Assembly, Connecticut Conference makes available to its members a variety of most interesting political, cultural, education and travel meetings. In addition, information is provided which deals with health issues, medicare changes, retirement, pensions, social security.

Following is a birdseye view of selected topics of actual meetings held:

CULTURAL: The Mark Twain Museum; The New Britain Museum of American Art; American Clock Museum; the New Britain Symphony Orchestra; Hillstead Museum; Florence Griswold Museum; the Museum of American Political Life at the University of Hartford; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center; Mattatuck Museum; Freeman Center for East Asian Studies; The Noah Webster House; the Goodspeed Opera House; Yale Center for British Art.

EDUCATION:Public Perception about Higher Education; Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education; Status of Higher Education in Connecticut; Connecticut Academy for Education in Math and Science; Experimentation and Innovation in Teaching in Higher Education.

PERSONAL ISSUES: Legislation Affecting Seniors; New Medicare Rules; Geriatrics and Gerontology; Are Pensions Safe in Connecticut; Assisted Living; State Benefits and the Patients' Bill of Rights; Health, Pensions and Social Security; TIAA-CREF Retirement Planning Issues; Tenure Issues; Tax Planning for Retired Professors; Keeping Active in Later Years; Rights and Privileges of Retired Faculty in Public and Private Colleges and Universities; Insurance and Health Care.

POLITICAL: Quinnipiac Polling Studies; Role of Roper Center in Social Inquiry.

TRAVEL: The Russian Far East.