Lifelong Learning Institute at Nova Southeastern University to Host Free Winter Welcome Week

Winter Welcome Week Schedule of Events

FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla.- January 3, 2014 –

Members of the community are invited to participate in stimulating lectures and workshops and learn about the great offerings of the Lifelong Learning Institute at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). Subjects range from Witch Hunts in American History to Jazz and its Building Blocks.

Maintaining an active mind and body has many benefits throughout all stages of life. LLI provides its members with many benefits such as stimulating daytime lectures, workshops and discussion groups led by distinguished NSU faculty members and expert lecturers from the community, opportunities to audit NSU classes, fieldtrips to prominent museums, popular nature sites and special events, and NSU student discounts. Members pay an annual fee.

Winter Welcome Week will take place Jan. 6-9 at 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Lifelong Learning Institute at NSU University Park Plaza (near Pier 1 Imports and Pizza Loft) 3424 S. University Dr. Davie, FL 33328.

For more information and to register for this free event, please call 954-262-8471, email lli@nova.edu or visit www.nova.edu/lifelonglearning.

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About the LLI:

The Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) is a longstanding Institution at Nova Southeastern University (NSU).  Founded in 1977 as the Institute for Retired Professionals and renamed the Lifelong Learning Institute in 2006, the LLI serves the lifelong learning interests and needs of the mature adult and retirement community in Broward County. The LLI, which is a component of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, is located on NSU’s Davie campus. The LLI was founded to complete the NSU dream of education spanning a whole lifetime, from preschool to older-adult learning.

Through a unique, warm environment, the LLI offers not only challenging educational lectures, but also social opportunities through field trips and participation in NSU special events and lectures. LLI members can take advantage of a membership perk and audit classes throughout the university. Such experiences offer true intergenerational learning while sitting side by side with undergraduate and graduate students, sharing and learning from each other.

LLI on-campus membership breaks down to a 50 percent female to 50 percent male ratio. Ages range from late 50s to early 90s, with mid 70s as the average age. Many LLI members are retired professionals such as lawyers, doctors, business people, and teachers.

During the main academic LLI calendar, which runs from October through May, classes are offered Monday through Thursday, two classes a day. The LLI runs on a slightly reduced schedule during the summer months with one class a day, three days a week. Some members attend all classes every day, while others pick and choose the classes they want as is convenient for their personal schedules.

Since the LLI believes in a total mind, body, spirit approach, a fitness program, run by NSU fitness instructors, is offered in our classroom two to three afternoons a week for a small additional fee not included in the membership rates.

About Nova Southeastern University: Situated on 314 beautiful acres in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a dynamic fully accredited research institution dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs at all levels.  NSU is a not-for-profit independent institution with 27,000 students. NSU awards associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, doctoral and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields. NSU is classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and it is one of only 37 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification. For more information, please visit www.nova.edu. Celebrating 50 years of academic excellence!

Media Contact:

Jeremy Katzman, M.B.A. | Office of Public Affairs
954-262-5408 (office)
954-661-7000 (cell)
j.katzman@nova.edu