Abstract
Abstract Ithaca College is a private comprehensive college of about 6,000 students in upstate New York. Its Gerontology Institute (ICGI) was formed in 1992, with a major and a minor in Aging Studies added in 2001. Despite a high profile in the local community and in the field of gerontology, program evaluation consistently revealed important challenges including trouble promoting a gerontology major to high school seniors (especially important at a tuition-dependent school like Ithaca College) and credit-heavy health professions programs where advisors were reluctant to have students add a minor or double major. Institutional forces accelerated by the pandemic led to retrenchment in 2021, including the loss of the major as well as the ICGI being folded into a department of health sciences and public health. In this presentation, we share both details of past challenges as well as the ways in which we are moving forward with a more collaborative model focused on connections within the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance.
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