Lifetime Learners Institute
at Norwalk Community College, 188 Richards Avenue, Norwalk CT 06854
West Campus Room W012. Phone: 203-857-3330.


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About LLI
Lifetime Learners Institute (LLI) is an independent volunteer organization for people over 50 who want to continue learning. Our members (about 700) come from all over Fairfield County. LLI is managed by volunteers. Our course Facilitators receive a small honorarium for their time, effort and expertise. 
We are affiliated with Norwalk Community College, where our office is located, and most of our classes take place. More.
   Affiliated with the Elderhostel Institute Network (EIN), we are among the largest of over 200 Institutes for Learning in Retirement -- known now as Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs).  We are also affiliated with the Connecticut ILR Core Group (CICG).
  
About those names ... 
  The organizations now called Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs) used to be called Institutes for Learning in Retirement (ILRs). The ILR movement began at New York's New School in 1962 and began to spread. By 1985, about 50 programs were running, but without the benefits that a central coordinating agency would bring. 
     That's when Elderhostel came in. Elderhostel saw the ILR movement as logical extension of its educational travel programs: a way to foster long-term learning for older adults in their own communities. The ILR movement viewed Elderhostel as the national organization best equipped to lead the movement's expansion. The Elderhostel Institute Network (EIN) was formed to help groups organize.
     In 1991, a group of adult learners at NCC contacted EIN for help in forming the Lifetime Learners Institute (LLI). More history ...
       In recent years, EIN dropped the ILR name and began to call its affiliates Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs).
 
   

Lifetime Learners Institute - For information: contact LLI  Webmistress: Marilyn Bakker