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For more than four decades, Dr. Doe Hentschel has developed transformative, creative, and pioneering continuing education programs and policies. As a strategist, collaborator, innovator, teacher, and facilitator, she has distinguished herself in multiple settings. A leader and visionary in the field of adult education, she was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in 2013.

This prestigious honor recognized her as a practitioner who has consistently initiated, pioneered, administered, taught, and led unique and internationally acclaimed outreach to diverse populations. Her legendary leadership has been far reaching. In addition to her research and academic contributions, examples of her programmatic innovations include:

  • One of the first Women’s Programs to support college reentry and career development

  • Two Centers for Learning in Retirement

  • A program to support career transition from the private sector to the nonprofit sector

  • An innovative program to facilitate and support self-directed learning required of all residents of a continuing care/life plan retirement community located on a college campus

  • A leadership development program for college student leaders from multiple institutions to collaborate and lead in the broader community

  • A system to identify and train people interested in serving on nonprofit boards and connect them to nonprofit organizations seeking to strengthen and diversify their boards.

  • The ground-breaking Third Age Initiative™, an award-winning program of Leadership Greater Hartford

 

Her service in adult learning is embedded in the history of the field – its innovations, organizations, and community and educational associations. A longtime member and major contributor to state and national professional associations, she served in executive leadership positions in the National University Continuing Education Association, the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education, the Adult Education Association of the USA, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Continuing Education Association of New York, and the Public Adult and Continuing Education Association of Illinois.

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