Ask OLLI

The Curriculum Committee, OLLI at University of Southern Maine, asks:

1. Do you assess the quality of your OLLI courses, and if so, by what means? (e.g., student evaluation forms?)
2. If you do such assessment, how did you arrive at or determine the policies meant to ensure a level of quality in your courses?
3. What are those policies and standards?
4. Who or what committee decides if a proposed course meets, or a taught course has met, the standards for quality?
5. What happens if it appears that a taught course has not met the standards established for quality?
6. Do you pay your faculty?

Maya Sutton, OLLI at University of New Mexico, asks:

To attract OLLI members, what have other universities found to be most effective in their first 2 years of an OLLI grant? Also, what benefits were most effective as perks?

Lena Frumin from OLLI at American University asks:

How do OLLIs find and recruit Study Group Leaders? Do you offer a class for training SGLs?

Steven Benson from OLLI at the University of Minnesota asks:

What has your OLLI done to create a “social center” if you do not have a facility that already serves that purpose?

Sharon Sokoloff from OLLI at Brandeis University Asks:

At the present time the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Brandeis has an Open Admissions Policy - Anyone who applies and can pay the fee is admitted. As our program grows we anticipate the need to develop an Admissions Policy. Whether your program is at its capacity or not, do you have an Admissions Policy? If so, what criteria do you use? Is there a weighting or prioritization of these criteria? What is required of the applicant?

Thank you for any information you share with us.

Millicent M. Lynch, OLLI at Carnegie Mellon University asks: Have any groups used catalog software for print-type catalogs, and if so, could they make any recommendations?