Teachers: Earn Three Graduate Credits in Five Days This Summer at C.W. Post

Brookville, N.Y. – Learning is a lifelong process for many adults, especially teachers. But finding time in a busy schedule for college courses can be a challenge. That's a big reason why so many adult students turn to summer intensive institutes at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University -- where three-credit, graduate-level courses are completed in just five days.

"It's very beneficial to teachers," said Elizabeth Rosenhauer of Long Beach, N.Y., an art teacher at Hicksville High School who took a summer intensive institute art course in 2007. "To be able to obtain three graduate credits in such a short time works very well for us."

More than 60 intensive institute courses will be offered this summer by the C.W. Post School of Education, School of Visual and Performing Arts and Palmer School of Library and Information Science. Among the topics covered are school and mental health counseling, curriculum and instruction, literacy and special education, library administration and information science, art techniques, and music theory and history.

Rosenhauer said she took her class in printmaking and papermaking with professor Richard Mills "because I teach those subjects in high school. What I learned in the summer institute I immediately implemented in September."

"As an artist I found that being able to work for a full day rather than shorter classes was very beneficial," she said. "You're able to produce a large amount of work in a short time. It was very intense. We worked straight through the entire day and because we were enjoying what we were doing so much, we didn't even take our lunch break. Everyone was so focused on the work and so enthusiastic that we worked straight through."

Offered since 1975, the C.W. Post summer institutes are highly popular with educators, counselors, artists, musicians and adults who simply love learning.

"These courses fill up quickly, so people who plan to be visiting students should register as early as possible," said Michael Santoro, program coordinator for enrollment services at C.W. Post. "This is a very popular program."

Upcoming institutes include: "Planning Tomorrow's Library," July 18-21; " Counseling Special Populations," June 30-July 3, 2008; "Teasing and Bullying," July 7-11; "Stress Management In and Out of the Classroom: K-12," July 14-18; "Introduction to Adobe InDesign," July 14-18, and many more.

Visiting graduate students will find easy, one-step admission and registration and a wide assortment of courses in five three-week sessions. Most run Monday through Friday, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending between 4 and 6 p.m.

The beautiful C.W. Post Campus is conveniently located minutes from Exit 39 of the Long Island Expressway in Brookville, N.Y. Some summer intensive institutes are also offered at Long Island University's Brentwood Campus in Brentwood, N.Y., the Rockland Graduate Campus in Orangeburg, N.Y., the Westchester Campus in Purchase, N.Y. in Manhattan.

For more information or to request the Summer '08 course bulletin, call the C.W. Post Office of Summer, Evening and Weekend Programs at (516) 299-2431, e-mail study@cwpost.liu.edu or visit www.liu.edu/cwpost/institutes.

Posted: June 17, 2008