The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman is accepting applications through June 6 for its next Senior Leaders Greenville program.<\/p>\n
Launched in 2013, Senior Leaders Greenville is a program designed for adults 55 and up who want to play a more essential role in the community.\u00a0 The program empowers participants to become active in fostering better lives for seniors in Greenville and the Upstate.<\/p>\n
Senior Leaders Greenville, a community partnership with Upstate programs Senior Action and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System\u2019s Lifewise, runs August 2016 to May 2017. Cost for the program is $350 and scholarships are available. The program is limited to 40 participants per year.<\/p>\n
Senior Leaders Greenville, which graduated its second class May 19, equips participants to be advocates and change-makers so they can represent the senior population in a variety of ways, including serving on boards or commissions, lobbying for issues affecting seniors, attending civic meetings, or even running for office.<\/p>\n
Through monthly lectures, seminars, tours and working groups, seniors explore issues identified in the Lt. Governor\u2019s State Plan on Aging, which includes topics such as health, re-education, transportation, senior services, caregiving, end-of-life issues, nutrition, technology and more.<\/p>\n
For more information about Senior Leaders Greenville including application details, visit the OLLI website<\/a>, or contact OLLI Director Nancy Kennedy at (864) 294-2998, or nancykennedy2767@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman is accepting applications through June 6 for its next Senior Leaders Greenville program. Launched in 2013, Senior Leaders Greenville is a program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-continuing-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}