Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSC General Meetings

You can also check the OLLI calendar for meeting time and information about the meeting. (https://olli.ucsc.edu/calendar/index.html).

Normally our members gather monthly, September through May inclusive, except in December, usually on the third Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon in the Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multipurpose Room to socialize, conduct business, and hear a speaker, often a UCSC professor. We greet, meet, and eat (fruit or cake, and coffee or tea), and interact with a speaker of note. 

April 21, 2024 OLLI General Meeting, 10:00am–12pm

Location: College Nine and John R. Lewis College Multipurpose Room, UCSC

Speaker: Lora Bartlett, Associate Professor of Education, UCSC

Topic: "Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World"  

In a recent book Professor Bartlett described how many schools are getting the teachers they need only by intensive recruiting outside the US, especially in the Philippines. Professor Bartlett will present to us a well-informed view of the current status of the teaching profession.

Lora Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She serves as the Research Lead on the National Science Foundation Noyce Teacher Scholars Grant. After earning an MA degree in education and English Lora Bartlett taught in the public school system for several years. She decided to learn more about our educational system, earned a PH.D from UC Berkeley, and joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz. In her work she has focused on the nature of the teaching profession. 

Program Chair

Our program chair, who finds and arranges for our speakers, is Barry Bowman. Please send suggestions for future speakers to him at bbowman@ucsc.edu.