Thanks to LERN members who contributed to the earthquake relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Over $1,000 was raised for the effort to buy food and medical supplies to help the victims of on the ongoing earthquakes.

Some 130 LERN member programs have responded so far. If you have not yet responded to our Program Survey, you shortly will be getting another request to complete it. 

Operations is possibly the fastest growing area of lifelong learning programming right now. It is key to profitability.  The upcoming first-ever Operations Conference has great registrations already.  From the upcoming conference, here’s a sneak preview of the top 7 trends.

LERN Members generated more than 1,000 registrations for February UGotClass online courses, one of the best ever for the month. 

What started off as a little idea soon became the “little engine that could” for Sanford Community Education in Springville, Maine. Slowly, more and more local musicians joined the cause to create what would become Sanford’s weeklong summer camp for musically-minded students, mentored by local rock musicians.

We are both sad and grateful to Julia King Tamang and Fred Bayley for their work with LERN. They each did outstanding presentations at the big LERN annual conference in San Diego, unfortunately their last LERN conference.

Here are the Courses of the Year LERN has selected from many excellent submissions. It was hard to choose with so many programs doing such great work out there.

The 800 attendees at the big LERN conference packed the hall and loved the heart rending story and message from Ken Nwadike, Jr. about easing divisions and tensions in society today.

Our hot new online certificate in SQL starts in February. Start offering it to your community immediately. 

Gaining your Certified Program Planner (CPP) designation works. It works for you, for your lifelong learning program, and for your community.

LERN members set another UGotClass one month record in October, generating registrations that were up a whopping 12% over the same month a year ago.