,\u00a0<\/strong>the director of the OLLI program at UConn. \u201cIt might be that they had a long university career themselves. Many of them didn\u2019t have the chance to go to university and they want that feeling of being in the classroom. They enjoy sitting there with their peers and learning from somebody who is not only an expert, but passionate about what they do.\u201d<\/p>\nOLLI offers a broad curriculum that covers both experiential and academic learning. The instructors are all volunteers and sometimes are teaching in subjects they too had an outside interest in exploring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a retired biochemistry professor from Princeton and one of his personal passions was English literature, so he taught that,\u201d says de Merell. \u201cHe came to us with this incredible teaching background, but he teaches something else that he enjoyed sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n