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Ron Manheimer
Ronald J. Manheimer is executive director of the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR), an award-winning lifelong learning, leadership, research, and community service program of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he also holds an appointment as Research Associate Professor of Philosophy. Before becoming the NCCCR's first director in 1988, Manheimer was director of older adult education for The National Council on the Aging (NCOA) in Washington, D.C.
Manheimer is trained in philosophy with a Ph.D. from the Board of Studies in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book, Kierkegaard As Educator (University of California Press, 1977, Korean translation, 2003), explores the Danish philosopher and theologian's stages of human development. Manheimer has taught at Wayne State University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, San Diego State University, The Evergreen State College, UNC-Asheville, and the Smithsonian. He is a Fellow of the University of North Carolina Institute on Aging.
Manheimer has combined scholarly and practical interests through developing educational programs for retirement-aged people in colleges, universities, libraries, senior centers, nursing homes, and retirement communities. He has published numerous studies investigating philosophical issues of later life and human development, including A Map to the End of Time: Wayfaring with Friends and Philosophers (Norton, 1999; [Taiwan, Chinese translation], Focus 2002), and information and resource volumes such as the Older Americans Almanac: A Reference Work on Seniors in the United States (Gale Research, Inc., 1994), The Second Middle Age: Looking Differently at Life Beyond 50 (Visible Ink Press, 1995), and Older Adult Education: A Guide to Research, Policies and Programs (Greenwood Press, 1995). Manheimer has worked as contributing editor to Creative Retirement magazine, publishes in Where to Retire magazine and in the Wall Street Journal. His is active in national aging organizations. Manheimer is also active as a consultant to organizations seeking to start or expand lifelong learning programs, and to communities seeking to attract retirees as a dimension of economic development.
Contact Information
NC Center for Creative Retirement
University of North Carolina at Asheville
CPO #5000
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8511
Phone: 828-232-5180
rmanheimer@unca.edu
Website: www.unca.edu/nccr
