MOORPARK : College Offers Men’s Guidance Program

A new Moorpark College men’s program will hold its first meeting today for men who want help defining career goals, improving study skills or finding their roles in a changing society.

The meeting, which will be held at 1:15 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Campus Center, is open to men of any age, said English professor Michael Strumpf, who helped organize the meeting.

The meetings will be held every second Wednesday at the same time and location, Strumpf said.

The meetings are part of a new program at the college designed to offer men the same types of guidance and support that are available to women at the school’s 17-year-old women’s center.

Called the men’s re-entry program, it is geared partly toward men who are re-entering school or the work force after having lost their jobs.

But, Strumpf said, it “is more than just vocational therapy or occupational therapy.”

The program also incorporates some tenets of the men’s movement, he said. It will help men explore their new roles in society now that many traditionally masculine roles, such as the role of family breadwinner, are often filled or shared by women.