Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Please visit our Membership Enrollment guide for instructions

This guide provides detailed step by step instructions on how to enroll in an OLLI membership with included screenshots of each page.

Please visit our How To Look Up What Courses You Are Enrolled In guide for instructions

Please visit our How To Register for an OLLI Course (PDF) for step-by-step instructions on how exactly to register for courses.

Please see our Zoom Essentials document for some tips and tricks.

Costs:

• Full-Year: $290
• Fall only: $125
• Spring/Summer: $165
• Spring only: $125
• Summer only: $75

 

Benefits:

• Register for OLLI classes offered in any of our semesters, Fall, Spring, or Summer
• Receive a Temple AccessNet account, which gives you access to Temple University Library resources.
• Be the first to learn about special one-time lectures, speakers, and informative sessions that will be held periodically throughout the semester.
• Receive discounts on courses offered by other Temple programs such as Senior Scholars or Temple’s Office of Non-Credit and Continuing Education.

 

You must first enroll in an OLLI Membership before you can register for courses.
If you have not yet enrolled in an OLLI membership, please click here to go to the Become an OLLI Member page.

Registration for courses will be become available 4 or 5 weeks prior to the start of the semester (we will announce the exact registration dates on our homepage and send an email announcement to all OLLI members) and will remain open during the entire two-week registration period.

In order to accommodate our members who are not tech savvy, we created a registration system we call The Lottery in which there is no advantage to registering early and no disadvantage to registering later.

During this period, when you register, you will join the wait list for the course. Don't be alarmed. After the two-week registration period is over, we take down all courses, to process registrations.

If a course is undersubscribed, everyone who is on the wait list will be registered. If a course is oversubscribed, we run the lottery which randomly determines who will be registered. You can be fairly certain that you will be admitted to most courses that accept 200 or more students. See the course description to view the Maximum Class Size.

At the end of the week, emails will be sent to all OLLI members announcing the courses they are now registered in. You can also log in to your DestinyOne account to view this information. Please look in the section above to find instructions on How To Look Up What OLLI Courses You Are Registered In.

If there are courses that still have space remaining, they will be made available for registration on our course registration page, on a first-come, first-served basis. At this point, if you are interested in a course that does not appear there, you may email olli@temple.edu on the off-chance that a member has recently dropped the course and one space has become available. Please look in the section above to find instructions on How To Register for Courses.

If you have any questions or would like our assistance, please email olli@temple.edu and we would be happy to help.

OLLI offers partial scholarships for those who cannot afford to pay the full cost. This year, are offering two types of scholarships: either a 25% or 50% scholarship. If you wish to apply for a semester or full year scholarship, click here to access the form. Deadline to submit is August 16, 2022 or until all scholarship funds have been exhausted. Once your scholarship request is approved, OLLI staff will contact you to assist you with enrollment.

The deadline to request a refund is the Friday before the start of the semester in which you joined. If you enroll in an OLLI membership and change your mind, please email OLLI at olli@temple.edu as soon as possible.

The cancellation fee is $15.

OLLI at Temple offers many volunteer opportunities for its members! If you're interested in volunteering in any of the areas below , please click here to go to the OLLI Volunteer Interest Form to let us know.

Volunteer Instructors

A key feature that distinguishes OLLI at Temple from most educational institutions is that our instructors are volunteers. We offer instructors a free membership during the semester they teach and a 15% discount towards a membership during the remaining semesters that year. If an instructor teaches 2 courses in a year, they are awarded a free full-year membership.

Volunteer Leaders

OLLI at Temple has an elected Council comprised of a President, two Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, and seven Councilors. The President, two Vice Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretary comprise the Executive Committee. OLLI’s Council meets ten times a year and OLLI members are welcome to attend these meetings.

Volunteer Committees

The description of each Committee listed below can be found in the OLLI Member Handbook

Curriculum Committee Library Committee Special Events Committee

Friday Forum / Summer Cafe Committee Membership Committee Trips Committee

Fundraising Committee Nomination Committee Volunteer Committee

Most committees try to limit their size to approximately 10 members. Periodically we send out announcements from certain committees, asking whether anyone is interested in joining. If you would like to show your interest in joining a committee now, please click this link for the online Volunteer Interest Form.

Add/Drop a Course

If you are registered for any course that you do not plan to attend, you may drop the course via your DestinyOne account. Please use the instructions for How To Look Up What OLLI Courses You Are Registered In. You can also email olli@temple.edu and we would be happy to take care of it for you.

 

ZOOM COURSE LINKS

Zoom course links are sent only to members who are registered for the course. Links for Session 1 courses are emailed during the week prior to the start of Session 1 and links for Session 2 courses are emailed during the week prior to the start of Session 2.

in addition, for your convenience, during each day your course is held, we re-send Tuesday course links on Tuesday and Wednesday course links on Wednesday, etc. The link you receive is unique to you and does not change throughout the semester. If you cannot find an email with your course link, please first check your Junk/Spam folder. If you still cannot find it, please email olli@temple.edu and we will resend it right away. Because we keep track of attendance, please do not share your link or use someone else's. Please see Zoom Best Practices for how to prepare for Zoom classes at OLLI.

Zoom course links are sent only to members who are registered for the course. Links for Session 1 courses are emailed during the week prior to the start of Session 1 and links for Session 2 courses are emailed during the week prior to the start of Session 2. In addition, for your convenience, during each day your course is held, we send links for Tuesday courses on Tuesday morning, Wednesday courses on Wednesday morning, etc.

The link you receive is unique to you and does not change throughout the semester. If you cannot find an email with your course link, please first check your Junk/Spam folder. If you still cannot find it, please email olli@temple.edu and we will resend it right away. Because we keep track of attendance, please do not share your link or use someone else's. Please see Zoom Best Practices for how to prepare for Zoom classes at OLLI.

The majority of our correspondence is via email. To ensure delivery of emails from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Temple University, please add the following emails to your address book:

• olli@temple.edu
• destiny1@temple.edu
• no-reply@zoom.us

If you are not receiving our emails, please check your Junk and/or Spam folder. If you find our email in your Junk or Spam folder, make sure to check it, and then mark it as "Not Junk," or "Not Spam."

If you have followed the above suggestions and are still not receiving our emails, please email olli@temple.edu and we would be happy to help troubleshoot with you. If you would like to change the email address you have on file or would like our assistance in any way, please email olli@temple.edu.

For your convenience, all emails that we have sent during this current semester are available below as a PDF.