University
for Seniors
University of Minnesota Duluth
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University for Seniors (US) is associated with the University of Minnesota Duluth educational system and sponsored by Continuing Education. University for Seniors celebrated its twentieth year in 2008 of providing lifelong learning for individuals age 50 and older. The educational program focuses on humanities-based opportunities for intellectual and cultural development, but also includes options for social events and field trips.
The program is designed to function as an intellectual cooperative with its members acting as instructors, planners and committee members. Continuing Education staff administer the program. Forty plus study groups are offered each term. Three eight-week terms are held each academic year.
US co-ordinates with the Elderhostel Network Institute and is recognized as one of their Lifelong Learning Institutes.
US originated in 1989 under the direction of Continuing Education program associate
Janet Hoeg. Charter member Gertrude Jacobson
accepted the responsibility of chairing an ad hoc committee to establish community
interest. Study groups were first offered at the University United Methodist
Church. Second director Jory Peterson moved the program to
the Kirby Student Center on the UMD campus in 1992. UMD campus administration
awarded the program its permanent home on the third floor of the newly renovated
Kirby Plaza in February of 2004. In the fall of 2004, the program received permission
to officially name the location the University for Seniors Robert N. Brownlee
Center in honor of the gentleman who bequeathed $417,000 to US in 1998.
Communicating With Our Members
A program catalog and registration form for study groups and special events is printed for each US term.
A newsletter informs our
members of US programs and events.
