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Winter of Change @UCRExtension!
This winter marks a season of historic change and seismic shifts. The economy demands better and different ways of doing business. Businesses seek professionals eager to embrace innovation. Now is the time to learn a new discipline, develop cutting-edge career skills and enhance current professional qualifications. Many of our classes begin the weeks of Jan. 5 and 12. Browse our catalog and register online now.
Notes from the Dean
Knocking against my office window with their promise of a new season, the Santa Ana winds blowing across Riverside this week seem an apt metaphor for the changes sweeping through our lives. (more)
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| Try a Taste of OLLI

Eying the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) from afar but not ready to commit?
This winter eager learners, age 50 and over, who have yet to join OLLI, can sample any single Osher class for $35.
Try "A Taste of OLLI" this quarter and test your "brain fitness." Become better acquainted with today's modern prophets like Martin Luther King, César Chávez and Dorothy Day. Re-channel your energy in a Tai Chi Ch'uan class.
Work need not interfere with expanding your horizons. OLLI is adding Saturday classes to its schedule for those working during the week. Sign up now for our first Saturday class, "Beginning Painting Using Acrylics." |
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| UCR Extension partners with Desert Studies Center to offer learning escapes
Combining knowledge with natural beauty, UCR Extension has partnered with The Desert Studies Center to offer ongoing weekend courses in nature studies, science, the arts and humanities.
Winter is the best time to set foot in the desert sands, feel the city tension fall away, and open your mind to new insights and creations. The first classes, Photographing the Eastern Mojave Desert and The Art and Science of Flint Knapping, begin Feb. 19 and 20.
Get personal instruction in the photography class as you learn how to best capture the brilliant browns, greens and blues of the desert landscape in your camera lens. Or learn the 4-million-year-old art of flint knapping and make your own arrowheads, hand axes and projectile points.
Courses coming this spring include:
- Bird Life of Eastern Mojave
- Lizards and Snakes of the East Mojave
- Botanical Illustration of Desert Flora
- Southwestern Desert Bats
Class fees at The Desert Studies Center include comfortable dorm rooms, hot showers, a kitchen, a computer lab, recreational facilities and a soaking pool. Consider it a spa weekend for your body and brain. |
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| American Electric uses customized classes to create leaders at work
One worker promoted. Tense relations between supervisor and subordinate smoothed. Overall, there are happier employees at American Electric Supply, Inc., in Corona, said Operations Manager Robert Fonseca. These are just some of the tangible results from UCR Extension's four onsite classes tailored for the company during the past three years.
"We never had any formal training for supervisors and managers before," said Fonseca, who has worked at American Electric for 10 years.
This winter, Extension's Custom Program Manager Susan Almeida delivers a new class to American Electric supervisors. They will study from Ken Blanchard's text, "Leading At A Higher Level."
"I would recommend Extension's programs to any company," Fonseca said.
For information, e-mail Susan Almeida or call (951) 827-1623. |
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