"Golden Age)” by Heidi Landecker appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education
on 4 September 2024. The article discusses the scholarship of Jean H.
Baker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, three scholars who
produce significant work in their nineties. Landecker highlights their
enduring passion for scholarship and addresses broader societal
conversations about the academy, age, and the lives of retired
academics. This conversation includes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera), professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Heidi Landecker, former Deputy Managing Editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education; Jenny Wilson, a Trustee of the London u3a) (university of the 3rd Age) and the Chair of Croydon u3a); and MIT linguist Samuel Jay Keyser) (Jay); Keyser spent 9 years as associate provost at MIT, and he is the founder and editor of Linguistic Inquiry), housed at MIT Press. This episode and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes) at the UPR-M have been supported by the Mellon Foundation. Topics mentioned in this conversation include: How
cognition, emotions, and how we experience life? What role does age have
colleagues, and community collaborators influence our activities and the
“Lingua Franca: Language and writing in academe),” The Chronicle of Higher Education, edited by Heidi Landecker.
“Age, Creativity and Culture): Reconsidering how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation,” by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera.
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