The Academy Village

The Academy Village - Unique community in the beautiful Rincon Valley SE of Tucson.
- Founded by UA President Emeritus
- Home of the Arizona Senior Academy (ASA)

The Academy Village is a vibrant and friendly retirement community ideal for active, independent adults who have no intention of retiring from life. It is located in the foothills of the beautiful Rincon Mountains, just east of Tucson Arizona and next door to one of the nation’s great national parks. Cultural events, fitness classes, lectures, and a wide variety of interest groups provide residents with limitless possibilities for personal growth, well-being, and creativity. The village is uniquely designed to facilitate pursuing the next stages of life after 50 among friends in a physically and intellectually stimulating environment. Residents are typically engineers, physicians, nurses, teachers, attorneys, homemakers, business owners, professors, retired government including military, psychologists, astronomers, writers and more. The Village contains only about 230 homes and a small, exceptionally "user-friendly" assisted living complex, making it easy for residents from 45 to 90+ to quickly become and remain a part of the community. At the heart of our Village is The Arizona Senior Academy, a non-profit corporation devoted to life-long learning, thinking, and doing in the context of local community outreach. Life in Academy Village keeps residents engaged whether they plan to continue working, volunteer in community efforts, participate in educational or leisure activities, or discover an entirely new passion. The purpose of this page is to share the activities of the Village and multi-media reflections of its dramatically beautiful environment with family, friends and potential residents. Note: Content of this Page is controlled by and may be used only with permission of the AV Media Group.

AV activities: Recently our community enjoyed a wonderful afternoon of dance! Villagers of ALL ages were in the audienc...
03/29/2026

AV activities: Recently our community enjoyed a wonderful afternoon of dance! Villagers of ALL ages were in the audience.

AV/ASA concert: Teodoro "Ted" Ramirez Tucson’s “Official Troubadour” folksinger and storyteller will entertain Friday, A...
03/27/2026

AV/ASA concert: Teodoro "Ted" Ramirez Tucson’s “Official Troubadour” folksinger and storyteller will entertain Friday, April 3rd 11:30am-12:30pm in ASA's Koffler Great Room.

Campus critters: Mule deer emerges from darkness for nightcap at one Village family's fountain. ~ Roughcut from video ...
03/27/2026

Campus critters: Mule deer emerges from darkness for nightcap at one Village family's fountain.
~ Roughcut from video footage thanks to AV resident Gary Hardy ~

Campus critters: Collared lizard basking beatifically on a cement ball yard decoration out front of one Village home.
03/26/2026

Campus critters: Collared lizard basking beatifically on a cement ball yard decoration out front of one Village home.

ASA activities: Spring Blood Drive coming April 10th!
03/25/2026

ASA activities: Spring Blood Drive coming April 10th!

Cool local critters: Seen and photographed atop Red Rock Butte just 20 miles south of the Grand Canyon by a Villager hik...
03/24/2026

Cool local critters: Seen and photographed atop Red Rock Butte just 20 miles south of the Grand Canyon by a Villager hiking the area, a juvenile collared lizard. This reptile's cousins abound on our campus which lies considerably lower at about 3K ft and some 350 miles to the south southeast.
~ Image and info thanks to AV resident Chris Holtz ~

Village views: Quad with celestial feather hovering!~ Image thanks to AV resident Bev Robertson ~
03/24/2026

Village views: Quad with celestial feather hovering!
~ Image thanks to AV resident Bev Robertson ~

AV avians: Audacious adolescent woodpecker audibly pecking (as seen through venetian blinds in one Village home's study...
03/24/2026

AV avians: Audacious adolescent woodpecker audibly pecking (as seen through venetian blinds in one Village home's study).

AV/ASA activities: Charles and Gretchen Prewitt Donor Appreciation Concert will take place Friday, March 27th 11:30am -...
03/24/2026

AV/ASA activities: Charles and Gretchen Prewitt Donor Appreciation Concert will take place Friday, March 27th 11:30am - 12:30pm in the Koffler Great Room. A reception will follow immediately after the concert. The public are welcome. CONCERT PROMO: Chinese pianist Jing Jin, currently a UA doctoral candidate, performs a solo recital of music by Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, and Granados.

AV/ASA activities: Wednesday's Lecture will be "Colon Cancer 101". Villager retired pediatric gastroenterologist Stev...
03/23/2026

AV/ASA activities: Wednesday's Lecture will be "Colon Cancer 101". Villager retired pediatric gastroenterologist Steve Erdman MD, Pediatrics Prof Emeritus Ohio State Med College, will speak Mar 25th 3:00-4:00pm in the Koffler Great Room and on zoom. March is Colorectal Cancer Prevention Month, a disease that iwill likely develop in 160K Americans this year and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths.

Villagers volunteer: Within and beyond the community. One Villager planted some ocotillos, hedgehogs and barrel cacti ...
03/23/2026

Villagers volunteer: Within and beyond the community. One Villager planted some ocotillos, hedgehogs and barrel cacti just yesterday. He says "thank you" for the generous cash, time and effort donations that fellow residents have offered over the past 6 months. Since October, $4120 was raised and donated to the Tucson Cactus and Succulents Society, and another $2080 was donated to our own Landscape Committee. Landscape and Open Spaces Committee members use donated dollars and plants whenever they are doing improvements. In the past 6 months hundreds of ocotillos, barrel and hedgehog cacti have been transplanted to AV residents' yards, work that has significantly improved the community's overall appearance. The actions of this volunteer and other Villagers have saved hundreds of beautiful cacti from bulldozers' blades.
~ Imagery, ideas and info thanks to AV resident Chris Holtz ~

View from the Village: Fantastic FLAMING sunset skies provided a fine finale for our third day of Spring!~ Imagery thank...
03/23/2026

View from the Village: Fantastic FLAMING sunset skies provided a fine finale for our third day of Spring!
~ Imagery thanks to AV resident Bev Robertson ~

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13701 E. Langtry Lane
Tucson, AZ
85747

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