A Systems Response to Improving Education on Aging in California (SAGE)Our program addresses two national challenges to higher education: the need to educate an ethnically and culturally representative workforce and the need to prepare health and social service providers to supply quality services and care to older adults. Our project intersects these two issues to improve the quality, accessibility, retention, and sustainability of higher education programs in gerontology and related health and social service disciplines. Our objectives are to 1) establish a cross-system project management structure that draws upon a broad range of experts, systems representatives, and key stakeholders; 2) adapt existing models for cross-system education, articulation, faculty development; 3) create and test competency-based gerontology curricula for gerontology, nursing, and social work representing education/career ladder principles and national disciplinary standards; 4) plan and implement faculty development programs in gerontology; 5) document process (formative) evaluation and summative outcomes at four levels: system, institution, faculty and student level; and 6) present processes, procedures, tools and products to foster adoption in additional California regions, and ultimately to promote national dissemination. The SAGE Project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Activities with collaborating institutions began January of 2007. Collaborating InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG) has come on board to advise the SAGE project. GRG specializes in program evaluation and has done extensive work in evaluation research, needs assessments, formative research, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and summative evaluation.
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