NRC for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes

The National Resource Center (NRC) for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes is headquartered at the Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies on the Chicago campus. The NRC serves as the national center for the current network of 125 lifelong learning institutes throughout the nation. The National Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes plays a lead role in disseminatin

g information on effective educational programming for older learners. In addition to providing information and connections via the web site, the Resource Center plans and coordinates a national conference and provides a range of ways to help OLLIs to connect with one another. The Bernard Osher Foundation designated Northwestern University the National Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes in October 2014. The Center was previously located at the University of Southern Maine from 2004 until 2014. The Center is not a governance body, but is a center for excellence and dissemination of best practice models. Each Osher Institute reflects the culture of its own university and its learning community locally. The National Resource Center exists to facilitate the exchange of opinions, solutions and experiences among institutes throughout the country so that all can benefit.