Photo Caption: Barbara Zittel, Wally Altes David Miranda, Jackie Mahoney, Sandy Cohn


Honoring Forty for our Fortieth!


Excelsior College's Partners in Lifelong Learning Award is bestowed annually at our Capital Region Scholarship Event. Now in its fourth year, the event allows us to draw attention to the importance of lifelong learning while funding scholarships for students in need of financial support to complete their degrees.


In celebration of our 40th year, we're recognizing some of the key individuals who have helped the College reach this impressive milestone. Over the next two years we'll honor these 40 people whose advocacy and leadership made a difference to the College and the adult learners we serve, presenting each with a Partners in Lifelong Learning Award. Twenty awards will be given this year and twenty in 2012.


This year's Capital Region Scholarship Event will be held on Thursday, April 14, 2011, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. It will feature a sumptuous buffet reception and silent auction. Alumni, students, and friends of the College interested in attending may call the Office of Development for ticket information at 518-608-8287, or email mstryker@excelsior.edu.


Past honorees were Excelsior's founding president C. Wayne Williams, WMHT Educational Telecommunications, and technology pioneer John Cavalier. Together with the new award recipients, Excelsior will launch an Excelsior College Hall of Distinction.


Above are just a few of the awardees who will be honored in April.


MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:


This issue of Live & Learn helps us mark a special moment in the history of Excelsior College. Our 40th anniversary year is particularly meaningful. As we look back on the events leading up to our founding, we can also reflect on society as it was in the 1970s and on the advances in higher education that paved our way to this point.


For those of us who experienced the 70s, I believe we saw ourselves at the forefront of modern society at its most progressive. Everything was changing -- as were we. I don't know if most of us really imagined the enormity of the transformation that would follow, particularly in terms of technology and the impact it would have on our daily lives.


Yet, forty years ago, a few far-seeing and courageous men and women established this institution of higher education as Regents External Degrees (REX). They understood what the future might hold and the philosophy that "what you know is more important than where or how you learned it." It was a powerful idea whose time had come. Our founders were at the forefront of 21st century learning, and what they created is flourishing today.


As you enjoy this special issue, I hope you will celebrate with us. More than 136,000 graduates of this institution have seen their careers and their lives change for the better as a result of that radical idea that created a way for working adults to work learning into their lives.


In the following pages you will see some of the highlights of the 2009-2010 fiscal year, which preceded this special anniversary. I think you will agree that we have much to be proud of and even more to be thankful for.


Best wishes for the New Year,


John F. Ebersole
President

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