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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1740
igaa057.1740
Abstracts
Session 5025 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
The AFU Campus Climate Survey: Assessing Perceptions of Age Friendliness
Bowen Lauren 1 Silverstein Nina 2 Whitbourne Susan 3 1 
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
2 
University of Massachusetts Boston, Needham, Massachusetts, United States
3 
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”537 537
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
While the AFU goals emphasize campus structures and practices (which can and should be evaluated), it is equally important to assess perceived age-friendliness by campus community members. Availability of academic and career services to students of all ages does not guarantee that older and younger students feel equally welcome and well-served. The Campus Climate Survey gathers the “perceived” data from faculty, staff, and students of all ages through a Likert-scale survey that asks perception questions about age-friendly services, facilities, and campus culture. Participants in this session will be shown how to use the CCS at their own institutions and learn its value through preliminary findings from 2,708 staff, student, and faculty responses from Massachusetts, such as: while the majority (68%) of campus staff members agreed that older adults feel welcome on campus, more than half (58%) anticipate facing age biases and challenges on campus as they age.