Notes from the 2/27 Newsletter

Thank You to all of our Donors!

Pitt Day of Giving donations to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute raised over $21,000. Osher won the Power Hour Challenge for an another $1000 and secured the #1 spot on the "Places, Experiences, and More" leader board, which won an additional $10,000 for scholarships and programming.

Updates to Spring Catalog:

Canceled - Ethiopian History and Folk Wisdom, Meshesha Make Jobo (Spring Session 2, Wednesdays 1-2:30pm)

Coming Soon, Spring Session 2

Spring Session 2 starts Monday, March 13. We will send out Zoom invitations and classroom assignments for each course a week before they begin. We will also send them out the morning of each first class meeting. So look for those emails starting the week of March 6.

You can still register for session 2 courses!

Important Upcoming Dates


Monday, March 6 - Friday, March 10 - University of Pittsburgh spring break. There will be no audit classes this week.

Wednesday, March 8 - The OLLI Office will be closed for an hour from 9-10am. We will not be available in person, by phone, or by email.

Friday, March 10 - OLLI Office closed.

Monday, March 13 - Spring Session 2 begins. There is still time to register!
 

Regular OLLI Office Hours


Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Staff is in the Osher Office, 1400 Posvar Hall
Thursdays and Fridays: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Staff works remotely, but we will answer emails and phone calls. 

 

New Library Celebration

Pitt's Community Engagement Center (CEC) in Homewood received the gift of a wonderful collection of rich reading material about African history, African music, biographies, and much more from Dr. Harry James Ford.

On Monday, February 27, the CEC in Homewood Library will be officially open to the community. There will be tours of the library all day long (9:30am-3:30pm) and a special celebration paying honor to Dr. Ford from 2 to 3 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by University of Pittsburgh Archives and Special Collections.

The Homewood CEC is located at 622 N. Homewood Ave. (Next to PNC Bank).