This course is a unique collaboration between our Nursing Simulation Laboratory and our Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) where our nursing staff prepares lifelong learners to serve as Standardized Patients (SPs) for undergraduate nursing simulations. Participants will learn how to accurately and consistently portray specific patient scenarios, provide valuable, constructive feedback to students from the ‘patient’s perspective’, and contribute to the safety and realism of the clinical learning environment. No prior acting experience is required; the curriculum is specifically designed to help non-actors use their own life experiences to create authentic patient portrayals for our students. This first session served as an introduction to the training, and a tour of the Nursing Simulation Laboratory. 

 Students at our at our Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) center are drawing a rose in yesterday's Beginner's Botanical Illustration class at our Center for Professional Studies.

Students at our at our Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) center are learning to render textures in their Not Your Kids Colored Pencils course.

Award-winning journalist, author and Fitchburg Councilor-at-Large  Sally Cragin brings her theatrical expertise to the Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA)  classroom this Spring. As Chair of the Stratton Players, Cragin is leading a deep-dive discussion of The Crucible  for her ALFA course "Exploring Plays: Top Theatrical Classics,"  at the Center for Professional Studies. 

Psychological Science Professor Thomas Schilling teaches his Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) course A History of the Modern Mind in the McKay Campus School. In this course, students will attempt to answer the question that the brain and mind are inextricably linked by studying how major thinkers from antiquity (ancient Greek philosophers) to Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers (Descartes, Hume, Kant), to our modern scientific era (cognitive science) have attempted to answer this question. Our survey will help to reveal the enormity of the mind and its infinite capacity for meaning making.

School of Graduate, Online and Continuing Education Assistant Dean of Enrollment Peter August, who is also a poet and published author. is teaching Appreciating Poetry at our Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) center.