The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, initiated in 1972 as a response to crises and opportunities in the emerging field of academic gerontology, is no longer a dependent fledgling. Both the field and its organizations now face financial and student crises common to all of higher education, but positive growth in gerontology continues. The maturity of AGHE is a force guarding against narrow job training, and enables an even stronger leadership role in support of its varied institutional members. Alternatives to diminishing financial support are required for the orderly growth of academic gerontology. The realities of population demography suggest that reevaluation of and recommitment to long range goals are immediate tasks in "Coming of Age."
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Ruth B. Weg (1985) studied this question.