OLLI101605 - Philadelphia Pathbreakers
Course Description
PHILADELPHIA PATHBREAKERS
Instructor: Debra Weiner
Day of Week: Wednesday
Dates: Oct. 1 – Dec. 10 (10 sessions)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Hybrid at TUCC
If there were an Academy Award for local innovation, the guest speakers in this course would all be winners. From arts to community organizing, law to appliance repair, and homeless college students to historic preservation, these Pathbreakers have forged new pathways for future generations.
Maximum: *40 In-person/50 Online
Instructor Bio: Debra Weiner holds graduate degrees in city planning and urban education. Through her studies and career, she has connected with local innovators from diverse professions committed to making Philadelphia a more united, resilient, and equitable community. Her 45-year career in education includes leading nonprofit advocacy organizations, advising state and local education officials, designing and evaluating college prep programs and high school–college partnerships, researching policy options, and teaching working adults in higher education.
Notes
This is a hybrid course. Hybrid courses feature both in-person and online components that occur simultaneously. In-person students attend class with the instructor, while online students participate via Zoom, engaging with the same material in real time.
Please note that if you are signing up for the in-person section that you will be wait listed. Courses that are in high demand or have limited seating are designated as waitlisted. Throughout the course catalog, these courses are marked with an asterisk (*).When you register for a waitlisted course, you are added to a waitlist rather than securing an immediate seat. At the end of the registration and enrollment period, any wait listed class that is oversubscribed is run through the lottery system that will randomly assign available seats to students on the waitlist. This process ensures that seat allocation is fair and not based on when a member registers.
The virtual section of this course is Direct Enroll, which means there are plenty of seats for this class and you are enrolling directly into this section.