COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS AMHERST | CORNELL UNIVERSITY | DARTMOUTH COLLEGE DENISON UNIVERSITY | HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE | ITHACA COLLEGE LASALLE UNIVERSITY | MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE OBERLIN COLLEGE | THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | SMITH COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS—AMHERST VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE | WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY | WIDENER UNIVERSITY KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS Kendal College & University Relationships Revised, June 2018 KENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES (KCC) with the Immaculata University Lifelong Learning Institute. he first Kendal Communities were not developed Residents are also active alumni in several local Quaker with a formal university connection, but soon colleges, such as Swarthmore and Haverford. Tafter opening, the informal affinity became readily West Chester University Alumni hold luncheons (twice apparent. Retired faculty from Swarthmore College, a year) on the Kendal campus. Some residents audit Westtown School and other educational institutions in the courses at West Chester University and KCC arranges for area were well represented among early residents. Their resident trips to cultural events at West Chester University interest in lifelong learning and in remaining active and on a regular basis. The West Chester University Office of involved in the community established a culture with a Cultural Affairs has worked closely with KCC to develop and natural inclination to college/university relationships. This promote these opportunities. culture has been transplanted to new Kendal communities, KCC hosts interns, nursing students, and social work has become more formalized over time, and has led to the students from West Chester University; social work students development of creative, dynamic relationships between from Bryn Mawr College’s graduate and undergraduate Kendal communities and educational organizations. programs; nursing students from Widener University; nurse While there is no one college or university in close practitioner students from the University of Pennsylvania; proximity to the Kendal-Crosslands Communities campus, nursing students from Neuman University; nurse this Kendal affiliate has connections with several schools. practitioner students from Villanova; nursing students from Many residents take courses and are instructors at CCIU; physical therapy students from Temple University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University and physical therapy students from St. Francis. of Delaware in Wilmington, 10 miles south of Kendal- Faculty members from local schools serve on the KCC Crosslands, and KCC provides transportation to the Institute Board. For more than 14 years, KCC has been a site for three times a day during the week. Osher Lifelong Learning vocational explorations for students in the Discover Institute with Widener University holds regular classes on Program from the Chester County Intermediate Unit and the KCC campus. Select staff members are regular instructors recently students from other local school districts. KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL AT HANOVER Resident as well as a Resident in geropsychiatry. Nurse endal at Hanover was the first Kendal community Practitioner students have completed clinical work from developed outside of Pennsylvania. Its connection Yale, Boston College, University of New Hampshire, and the Kto Dartmouth College began with an English University of Vermont. professor and Quaker who, along with a group from the Kendal at Hanover has developed affiliations with the Hanover Friends Meeting, was instrumental in Kendal at River Valley Community College for RN and LNA students Hanover’s early development. As chair of Kendal at Hanover’s and with Vermont Technical College for LPN students. first Board of Directors, he encouraged and supported the Kendal at Hanover staff in the department of development of relationships with both Dartmouth College rehabilitation educate students in the areas of physical and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. therapy and occupational therapy from River Valley Later, The Institute for Lifelong Learning at Dartmouth Community College and Franklin Pierce College. (ILEAD), now OSHER at Dartmouth, was created by The Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and Kendal Dartmouth with the participation of several Kendal at Hanover have established a working relationship, in residents. OSHER at Dartmouth develops coursework for part, through Kendal’s strategic planning process as Kendal which Kendal residents teach and many of the courses expands community awareness and outreach. This collegial are held at Kendal at Hanover. Approximately half of the relationship, through an affiliation agreement, fosters the Kendal at Hanover resident population supports the OSHER growth of the Centers for Health and Aging by having Kendal at Dartmouth program either as sponsors, participants, or taking part in integrated research with the goal of improving instructors. Kendal also provides classroom space to OSHER quality and outcomes for older adults, conference planning at Dartmouth on campus for both residents and outside committees for community programs, and working in areas community members. related to care of the cognitively impaired. The Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic at Kendal provides Kendal at Hanover and The Hood Museum of Art at geriatric primary care to all residents throughout the Dartmouth continue a rich engagement in a relationship independent community. The clinic staff also provides titled “The Art and Alzheimer’s Program.” Kendal residents a continuum of care for residents in the Health Center. who reside in Health Center visit the museum where The clinic serves as an educational setting for Dartmouth docents share art treasures with them in order to engage Hitchcock Medical Center Medical Students and Residents their reaction, as well as bringing forth memories. The who rotate through and care for Kendal residents. Kendal program involves members of the Hood Museum and at Hanover serves as a setting for an annual Palliative Care Kendal residents, staff and volunteers. KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL AT OBERLIN Nursing, Ursuline College and Oberlin College. In 2017, endal at Oberlin came to be through significant Kendal at Oberlin began offering students a chance to live involvement and support of Oberlin College. and work on campus in a duplex home offering 4 private KInitially, some Oberlin College staff served on bedrooms and allowing up to 4 interns at a time in the a broad based community committee charged with North Pleasant Connection, year-round. Students work exploring options for bringing a retirement community to anywhere from 12 hours a week while taking classes to full the Oberlin area. The Committee concluded that Kendal time during the summer or winter term when classes don’t was the organization of choice and the College expressed meet. Programs are customized to meet individual student its commitment to the project by providing seed money, goals and objectives. facilitating the acquisition of land, and supporting College The Academy for Lifelong Learning, which is sponsored faculty and staff, including the College President, to serve by Lorain County Community College, is also affiliated with on the Board in an ex-officio capacity. It is not unusual Oberlin College and the Elderhostel Institute Network. to have as many as three to four board members that are The Academy plans and offers field trips and numerous current or former faculty or staff. noncredit college-level courses, Today, while it is physically many of which utilize current and located close to Oberlin College, retired faculty members from the two Kendal at Oberlin relates to many colleges as instructors. Many of the colleges/universities in Ohio. These instructors include Kendal residents include Akron University, Baldwin and many of the courses are offered Wallace College, Case Western at Kendal at Oberlin each semester. Reserve University, Cleveland A listing of past and current courses State University, Lorain County may be requested directly from Community College, Bowling Kendal at Oberlin. The Oberlin College Green University, The Ohio State library, and other campus facilities University, Ohio University, Penn and amenities such as the athletic State, Youngstown State University, facilities, are open to Kendal at Oberlin Ashland University School of residents. KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS The Oberlin Conservatory of Music offers free concerts and developed ties over the years with Kendal residents. performed by faculty and students, as well as moderately Representatives from J. F. Oberlin University visited again in priced performances. There are as many as 1,200 events a March, 2011, and are moving forward to offer a retirement year, most free or low cost. Free shuttle service is provided campus as a partnership opportunity. Students from J.F. by Kendal to transport residents to such events, as this is Oberlin University participated in a two week program of considered local transportation included in fees. Students diversity training at Kendal at Oberlin during the summer of from Oberlin College also perform at Kendal at Oberlin. 2013 and continue to be open for new opportunities here Additional joint endeavors between Kendal and Oberlin and abroad.