“Now 35 years later, I see what it has become,” says Minow. “’We have so many people who have retired and want the intellectual opportunity to keep learning.’'Īfter Minow promised the program would be financially self-supporting if Northwestern put up its buildings, Arnold assented (the program was later rechristened the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, or OLLI, with generous funding from The Bernard Osher Foundation in 2006). “’This would be very good for Northwestern,’” Minow recalls telling Weber. An active trustee of Northwestern University at the time, he later met with then-president Arnold Weber and told him about the program. Every day, he passed by a building with the sign “The Institute for Learning and Retirement.” Founding OLLI to Support Lifelong LearningĬurious, he stopped in and was immediately intrigued by the program, which provided classes taught by group members themselves. In 1986, Newt Minow, BS’49, JD’50, was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School while helping create the Commission on Presidential Debates. Newt Minow leads his first OLLI study group-36 years after bringing the lifelong learning program to Northwestern Newt Minow leads his first OLLI study group.Learn more about the School of Professional Studies. Resources for Instructors Go to faculty page Information for Current Studentsįind out what your classmates are up to and how you can stay involved with Northwestern. Information for Prospective StudentsĪccess the tools and information you need for success at Northwestern.

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