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Fall Semester Over
Posted: 6:05 AM 11/21/2025
Fall 2025 semester is over — except for our Holiday Drop-in Reception for all current members. You should have received an email asking for an RSVP to the reception; if you are a member and did not receive the email, call 803-641-3563.
Come back to this website in mid-December to review the course schedule for the spring 2026 semester and get ready for Open House on January 6.
Searching Our Website
Posted: 6:13 PM 10/26/2025
You may search any website, including ours, by entering site:url search terms in the address bar of your browser. For example, to search our site for courses on Aiken history, you would enter site:aikenlearning.org aiken history in the address bar or the search box of your preferred search engine.
Changes to the Printed Catalog
Posted: 6:17 AM 10/4/2025
We frequently make changes to our course schedule after the catalog is printed, usually due to insufficient enrollment in a class or a conflict that developed in the instructor's schedule. Go to the list of all changes to the printed catalog to see them.
2024 Kauffman Award Presented to
Carl Fields
The annual Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the Center for Lifelong Learning was presented to Carl Fields at the annual Earl F. Kauffman Remembrance Day Luncheon, April 24, 2024.
Carl grew up in Newark, Delaware, and Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from
Michigan State.
His academic accomplishments include physics and masters of physics degrees,
including certification as a nuclear engineer.
He worked at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, designing submarine reactors, Clinton Nuclear Power Station, and SRS, performing safety analysis until retirement in 2004.
Since retirement 20 years ago, he has been a volunteer mainstay of first, the Academy of Lifelong Learning, and then its successor organization, the Center for Lifelong Learning. Over the years, he has brought in a multitude of new classes, taught many classes himself, and served as Curriculum Chair and President along the way.
He remains very active and is a dedicated contributor to CLL's success.
It is our honor to present Carl Fields with the annual Kauffman Award for his dedicated and exceptional service to the organization and this community’s adult education.
Note: This article is an edited version of the remarks made by Center Vice-President Jim Tisaranni when he presented the award.