When You Care Enough When You Care Enough To Share Your Very BestTo Share Your Very Best

A Facilitated Brainstorming Session

Who are we?

• Dan Campbell- Director of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB)

• Jeanne Campbell- Volunteer Coordinator and Curriculum Committee of OLLI at USCB

• OLLI at USCB (founded 1991) Three offices and classes in four locations

1,275 members 450 classes offered annually10,000 annual enrollments

Why this session?• Key to our success is our curriculum

• Important to keep it fresh

• Always looking for new ideas and instructors

• Impressed by programs offered by other lifelong learning organizations

• We have “assets” we are willing to share

Objective for this session

• Explore targets of opportunity for sharing program resources

• Identify an action plan to make this happen this coming year

Session Plan

15 Minutes Ideas to get your creative juices flowing

45 Minutes Brainstorming- great programming ideas that can be shared

30 Minutes Action Plan for next steps to develop great ideas into reality

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

I. EXCHANGESA. Instructor Exchanges

1. How about?

Sending outstanding instructors to another instituteE.g. --Dynamic history instructor-

specialty Civil War

or --Retired foreign service

officer/university professor specialty is African literature

In exchange we would host instructors from other organizations.

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

I. EXCHANGES (cont.)

B. Member Exchanges How about?

Sending a group of members to another institute for a dynamic program. What is

your best?

Take advantage of local sitesE.g. Beaufort (beaches of

Hilton Head, ecology of the Lowcountry, Gullah culture, Savannah, etc.)

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

II. Shared Programs

Targets of opportunity- examples

--Retired foreign service officer, “Islam and the West: the Historical

Roots of a Conflict”

--“The South Carolina State ConstitutionIs it Time to Amend?”

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

III. Travel Programs A. Joint Trips

--Civil War Adventures e.g. Sherman’s March to the Sea

--Eco Tours (ACE Basin)

B. Host Destinations, E.g. -- Lowcountry, barrier islands, Penn Center, Hilton

Head Island, City of Beaufort (300th anniversary)

-- What does your area have to share?

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

IV. Regional Events Programming on shared issues or events

Some thoughts:A. Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

From Florida to North Carolina

B. Multiple programs on same topic or theme over a period of time, e.g. Sherman’s March

C. ACE Basin- ecology

To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing…Possibilities

V. Communication Vehicles for Sharing Opportunities

--Host Southeastern Region web site or Listserv to share program ideas (or, make it sub-set of the OLLI National Resource Center site at USM).

What Opportunities Do You See?

Capture the ideaNo evaluation at this point

Follow-up

1. Organize ideas by category2. Identify interested parties3. Develop initial Action Plan

--Someone to take lead--Low hanging fruit