POM Award
Major
in Aging Studies Receives POM Award
The Gerontology Institute heard in February 2008 that its Major in Aging Studies has been granted the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education’s (AGHE) Program of Merit designation. This is a five-year designation.
In July 1998 AGHE’s Executive Committee established and implemented a voluntary program of evaluation known as the Program of Merit (POM). The POM designation provides gerontology programs with an AGHE “stamp of approval”. To be considered for the designation, Gerontology faculty and administrators developed and submitted a self-study report which addressed the Aging Studies Program’s alignment with AGHE standards and guidelines for gerontology programs and described the program’s history, resources, organizational and administrative structure, students and faculty, mission and goals, and relationship with the community.