OLLI at Illinois is an inclusive community that offers affordable, accessible, high-quality educational programs designed for people fifty or older connected to East Central Illinois or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the goal of enriching members' lives by heightening intellectual engagement and stimulating curiosity.

Registration for Spring 2023 Courses is now open!!!

Upcoming Events:

New Member Coffee
Friday, January 27, 2023
Location: OLLI Library
10:00-11:00 AM


Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Missouri Potpourri of the Arts Series
Friday, January 27, 2023: 100 years of T.S. Eliot's Poem "The Waste Land"
Location: ZOOM
9:30-11:00 AM


Let's Do Dinner and a Movie
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Location:
5:15 pm
Esquire Lounge - 106 N Walnut st, Champaign
7:00 pm
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER (2020) Virginia Theatre - 203 W Park Ave, Champaign


OLLI at Illinois offers Courses, Study Groups, Lectures, Interest Groups, and other Events throughout the year for adult lifelong learners. Events may be in-person sessions, online-only via Zoom sessions, or hybrid (in-person and Zoom webinar) sessions. We hope you will join OLLI and help us celebrate our 15th year of Lifelong Learning! Half-Year Memberships available for purchase ▶

OLLI (the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Illinois) is supported by the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Illinois Office of the Provost, and the generous donations of OLLI members and community partners. It is part of a network of 125 OLLI programs across the United States, and there are over 170,000 members nationwide.

OLLI at Illinois was launched in the fall of 2007 with 11 courses and 297 members. News of this exciting program dedicated to the pursuit of lifelong learning spread quickly, and we now have far more programs and members per year. In addition to courses in the fall and spring semesters, OLLI offers a dynamic schedule of programs and activities that includes lectures, study groups, travel opportunities, and collaborations with the Illinois campus and the communities in and around Champaign-Urbana.

Learn more about OLLI ▶      

Watch our member-produced video, "About OLLI."▶

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