Elinor Miller Greenberg
American education expert, speech pathologist, writer
Intro | American education expert, speech pathologist, writer | |
Places | United States of America | |
is | Writer Professor | |
Work field | Academia Literature | |
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Birth | 1 January 1932, Brooklyn | |
Age | 93 years |
Elinor Miller Greenberg (born 1932) is a nationally known American expert in the field of adult education and experiential learning, as well as a speech pathologist, author, and lecturer. A former civil rights activist, she sees access to education as a social justice issue, and has spent over thirty years creating higher education programs for non-traditional students. She headed the University Without Walls program in the 1970s; created a weekend BSN program for nurses in rural Colorado; established a degree program for Colorado prison inmates and ex-offenders; and established online master's degree programs for nurses in the 1990s. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2010.