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Learn as if Your Life Depended On It

“Lifelong learning” is not just a phrase – it’s an approach to life. Learn a language. Master investing. Start a blog. Learning is a prescription for a longer, healthier life – and increasingly, it’s done online. Read more in this Time article “Lifelong Learners Going Back to Class Online.

Re-Tool Your Life with PCC

In a life, job or career change? Back to school takes on a different meaning for adults in transition, and Portland Community College prides itself on the support and resources available to first-time and returning adult students. Here you can re-tool for an ‘Encore’ career, take a professional licensing or short-term certificate program, or complete the degree you started years ago and didn’t finish.

You also can go back to school for the sheer fun of it, enhancing your personal and professional development.  PCC Community Education has something for everyone, with more than 1,500 non-credit course offerings. There is also a convenient shuttle between campuses.

Creating Your Life by Design

Clarify what it is you really care about. Identify your strengths and talents. Make an inventory of your skills. Connect to your core values. Uncover your dreams. These are just a few of the milestones in our life planning course: 'Discover. Design. Engage.' that will give you the tools you need to create your life by design.

Mid-Career Professional Sees Things Differently

Are you carrying around an image of retirement based on your parents' experience? After attending the first Life by Design NW course through PCC Community Education, Kathie Cole, mid-career professional at PGE, sees things differently.