The Emeriti - Who Are Those Guys, Anyway?

The Emeriti are retired full-time faculty who wish to continue to participate in the LACC community. Some still teach part time. Others no longer are in the classroom, but find after-retirement involvement with the college provides a healthy and entertaining past-time as well as helpful support to the continuing faculty and students.

Emeriti are involved with the college in a variety of ways. We consponsor the Learning Community Awards program with the faculty senate. This provides two five-hundred dollar awards to faculty who demonstrate specific projects that they have used in the classroom or that contribute to the college programs in some way.

Emeriti are also adventurous travelers, and many have taken voyages and trips to distant lands to explore and to add to their own natural curiosity about the world and its peoples. Others continue to be active in their disciplines by writing, doing research, and continuing to develop their craft and art. Still others through retirement are allowed time to investigate new activities and hobbies, to explore all those things that looked like fun but for which there was previously no time.

Emeriti are, of course, family members, and many have children and grandchildren with which to spend time and to share memories and adventures. Retirement provides more time to be involved with family which might have been limited before. Additionally, there is now great opportunity for emeriti to socialize, share adventures with other emeriti and with college faculty and students.

On these pages you will find many interesting people and read of their adventures, college involvement, and lives. If you are retired but not yet a "member" of "Our Gang", check out the "Join the Gang" link for more information.