Ruth Silin particularly likes the poetry courses she takes at Lasell College, a small university near Boston where she lives on the campus. When she is not in class, she keeps busy with extracurricular activities, most recently producing and modelling in a student fashion show.
Ruth Silin特别喜欢她在拉塞尔学院学习的诗歌课,这是波士顿附近的一所小型大学,她就住在校园里。当她不上课时,她总是忙着参加课外活动,最近在一个学生时装秀上制作服装而且做模特。
But Ms Silin differs from her classmates in one important way: she is 95 years old, and among a small but growing number of affluent retirees being invited to live on or near US university campuses and avail themselves of the educational opportunities and facilities.“I loved the fact that it was on a college campus and associated with a college,” Ms Silin said. “It’s a wonderfully stimulating thing. When you reach this age, you don’t want to just be surrounded by other grey-haired people.”
但Silin女士与她的同学们最重要的不同是,她已经95岁了,在为数不多但数量不断增长的富裕退休人员中,她被邀请住在大学校园或者校园附近,拥有教育机会和使用教育设施的权利。Silin女士表示:“我喜欢呆在大学校园里,与大学关系密切,这是一件奇妙而刺激的事情。当你到了这个年纪,你不会想被其他白发苍苍的人包围。”
For the universities, which are often property rich, these older students can contribute more than just diversity: they can be a source of badly needed revenue and, potentially, generous bequests.
对于那些经济实力雄厚的大学来说,这些年龄较大的学生能做的贡献不只是令学校多样化这么简单:他们可能成为应急资金提供者,并有可能慷慨捐赠遗产。
Ms Silin, for example, is among 220 retirees who live at Lasell Village, which is part of a small college with an enrolment of about 1,700 that manages the development and receives lease payments. The senior students pay an entry fee of between $440,000 (£341,000) and $1.4 million, depending on apartment size, plus monthly fees of between $4,000 and $9,500. Other such communities are privately operated but lease land from institutions including Stanford University, whose faculty are paid to teach classes to residents. One at Duke University provides a licence fee to use the university’s name.
Silin女士是居住在拉塞尔村的220名退休人员之一,该村负责管理开发并收取租赁费,是一所小型大学的一部分,学校招收了约1700人。根据公寓面积大小,这些年长学生需支付44万至140万美元不等的入学费用,以及4000至9500美元不等的每月费用。其他类似社区都是私人经营,但从斯坦福大学等机构租赁土地,大学教职员给居民上课且有课时工资。杜克大学一个类似社区支付了使用该大学名称的许可费。
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