Welcome to SMC Emeritus!
Dear Emeritus Community,
Welcome to Fall 2025!
As shared via email in May, due to budget constraints, the District is not going to fill the Associate Dean position at this time. Please join me in offering best wishes and sincere gratitude to Dr. Guadalupe Salgado-Shower, who completed her contract as the Interim Associate Dean in June 2025, and completed her doctoral defense successfully the month before. Guadalupe has really made her mark on our program, and we will all miss her.
I’ll be more hands-on and happy to be able to spend more direct time with Emeritus — a program so near and dear to my heart. We continue to celebrate 50 years of the Emeritus program, and have several events planned this semester — from “Let’s See SMC” events to a larger 50th anniversary celebration. Stay tuned to your emails!
You will find that we are continuing to see updated course descriptions, some changes in courses scheduled, and even some new courses offered this year. You also may notice that some courses will be renumbered later this year. This is a project that the faculty and administration discussed to better distinguish and describe existing and new courses accurately.
We’ve also been working hard to advertise the Emeritus program on social media and have produced a promotional brochure. If you want to help distribute brochures, please see our Administrative Assistant, David Mendoza.
We encourage increased class attendance. As you see new students at Emeritus, welcome them! If you feel inspired to try a new class, go for it! As always, my best to you and yours!
Dr. Scott C. Silverman
Dean, Noncredit & External Programs
