The Inquirer (and Philly.com) on Saturday May 7th has a good article about Widener closing OLLI in Exton with quotes from some of your favorite classmates and instructors. Here is the link to the article on Philly.com.

www.philly.com/philly/news/20160507_Seniors_rally_after_Widener_closes_Exton_campus.html

LLCC fellow members:

We want to keep you up to date on our planning for Fall 2016.  We are meeting with 2 potential partners:  West Chester University and Immaculata University, among several possible partners. We hope to be able to choose between these fine options within a few weeks. In the meantime, we have 4 volunteer committees working to get ready for the fall.

           Membership

           Curriculum

           Operations

           Finance.

We can use additional help on several of these. If you are interested, please contact Tony Meluskey at anthony.meluskey.sr@gmail.com. These committees and the advisory board are meeting every Tuesday at noon at the Widener Exton location. 

We will plan to hold a full community meeting in 2 weeks, on Thursday, May 19 at noon in Room 1. Hope to see you there. To follow our progress, please check in with our blog at   http://lifelonglearningchesco.blogspot.com/ . 

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LLCC Advisory Committee

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Tomorrow, Thursday, May 5th, Ed Goll, Roberta Matz, Anne Hearn and Tony Meluskey will visit WCU to further explore our options with them. We will meet with the Director of External Operations and the Director of WCU's Continuing Education Program.
This level of interest makes our chances with WCU look good.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Ed Goll, Bob Hewitt and Tony Meluskey visited Immaculata University on Friday, April 19th, to investigate Immaculata's interest in our proposal to partner with them to continue our LifeLong Learning experience.
We met with the Dean of the College of LifeLong Learning (they even capitalize the second "L" in lifelong, just as we do). The Dean gave us a tour of the facilities that we would use for classrooms. It appears to be an excellent fit for us and I think the Dean recognizes that. Immaculata would have available most of the amenities that we identified in our five year Strategic Plan and which Widener is touting for its OLLI.
The Dean will report our visit to her superior, whom we met in the hall;  she immediately knew who we were and seemed very enthusiastic.
We're anxiously awaiting word concerning a follow-up meeting.