Board News
This page contains news from the Board of Advisors. It will be useful to new visitors to the member website to catch up with information from and about your Board of Advisors. Here is a list of the articles; click on any of them to jump directly to that article, or just read the most recent at the top and work down.
Check Out Benchmarks from OLLIs Across the Country
Click on the file link below to take a look at the comparisons among OLLIs across the country across demographics, memberships, and courses.
Click on the file link below to take a look at the comparisons among OLLIs across the country across demographics, memberships, and courses.
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Announcing the 2020 - 2021 OLLI Board Election Results
Ginny Knight, Board Past-President, has announced the results of the OLLI Board election. All candidates on the 2020 OLLI at Duke slate have been elected:
President -- Matt Epstein
Vice President -- Marion Jervay
At-Large Advisor (Term Ending 2022) -- Alan Teasley
At-Large Advisor (Term Ending 2022) -- Susan Dennison
You can find Board Member Bios HERE.
Ginny Knight, Board Past-President, has announced the results of the OLLI Board election. All candidates on the 2020 OLLI at Duke slate have been elected:
President -- Matt Epstein
Vice President -- Marion Jervay
At-Large Advisor (Term Ending 2022) -- Alan Teasley
At-Large Advisor (Term Ending 2022) -- Susan Dennison
You can find Board Member Bios HERE.
Introducing the Member Engagement Committee of OLLI at Duke
The Member Engagement Committee is a new committee at OLLI, with tasks from the former Communications Committee plus a few new jobs. The name has changed and the volunteers change, but their work remains vital to OLLI at Duke. Chair Beth Timson says the Committee maintains the OLLI member website (olliatduke), updates the OLLI events calendar, and regularly publishes the OLLI on-line newsletter Spotlight. Beth adds, “The OLLI Board has encouraged this committee to find new ways to engage members, so we are working on a proposal for a new OLLI blog for members to share interests and observations. We’re also gearing up to update and modernize the website itself.”
The Committee comprises basic working groups: one for the website and calendar; the other for the Spotlight. The team is usually small but welcomes new volunteers. A plus for this Committee: whole committee meetings are infrequent, since usual meetings are task groups! While new faces are needed for all positions (e.g., webmasters, Spotlight editors), there is a huge need for Writers/Reporters to increase coverage of OLLI events, committees, and classes. In addition, Beth says, “we would like to have more feature articles and photos about interesting things that are happening with OLLI members—not just information about the where and when of an event.” If you’d like to get involved with OLLI as a news reporter, you can contact Beth at BST3406@gmail.com.
When asked why she became chair of the committee, Beth says, “Communication is a critical function for any organization, especially so for a large one like OLLI at Duke (with over 2500 members) and one whose members seldom if ever get all together in one place. The newsletter and the website keep us connected with what’s going on with OLLI. And today people are used to and expect to be able to exchange ideas with each other electronically, so we’re working on an OLLI blog. We believe that the work of this committee is very important to the success of the organization as a whole.”
By Tamara Burkett
The Committee comprises basic working groups: one for the website and calendar; the other for the Spotlight. The team is usually small but welcomes new volunteers. A plus for this Committee: whole committee meetings are infrequent, since usual meetings are task groups! While new faces are needed for all positions (e.g., webmasters, Spotlight editors), there is a huge need for Writers/Reporters to increase coverage of OLLI events, committees, and classes. In addition, Beth says, “we would like to have more feature articles and photos about interesting things that are happening with OLLI members—not just information about the where and when of an event.” If you’d like to get involved with OLLI as a news reporter, you can contact Beth at BST3406@gmail.com.
When asked why she became chair of the committee, Beth says, “Communication is a critical function for any organization, especially so for a large one like OLLI at Duke (with over 2500 members) and one whose members seldom if ever get all together in one place. The newsletter and the website keep us connected with what’s going on with OLLI. And today people are used to and expect to be able to exchange ideas with each other electronically, so we’re working on an OLLI blog. We believe that the work of this committee is very important to the success of the organization as a whole.”
By Tamara Burkett