Teach at OLLI-UA

Share your Knowledge as an OLLI-UA Study Group Leader (SGL)

If you're passionate about a topic, you are invited to share your talents by leading an OLLI-UA class (or study group, as we call them).

OLLI members are a group of curious, engaged, and thoughtful individuals.

Our SGL ranks include active and retired academics, graduate students, business leaders, doctors, lawyers, teachers, social workers, psychologists, and more - all with an amazing range of experience and backgrounds.

Subject areas include history, arts, culture, crafts, cooking, health, self help, current events, literature, philosophy, spirituality, technology, science, math, social sciences, travel, entertainment and more.

A Few Basics

• Our study groups tend to be highly interactive and discussion-oriented, rather than lecture-based.
• Although many study groups are led by members, OLLI-UA membership is not required to teach at OLLI-UA.
• Class formats are flexible. You can teach anything from a single session to a full 12-week lecture and discussion curriculum.
• All of our Study Group Leaders (SGLs) volunteer their time and there is no monetary payment.
• Teaching an OLLI-UA class is also not a "sales" opportunity. Classes must be educational and are not for commercial purposes or personal financial benefit. 

Come lend your talents and share in the joy of learning! 

If you have knowledge, skills, or a passion for a topic, you can submit a proposal to teach!
Complete your course proposal by clicking the "Submit a Study Group Proposal" button below.

Study Group Proposals

Spring Session 2022 - 12 weeks Jan. 24 to Apr. 15

• OLLI-UA will be both in-person at our Central Tucson Campus and potentially at our Green Valley Campus, in addition to offering online Zoom classes for spring. See note below about a tentative limited in-person Green Valley option.
  
• Classes are generally 1.5 hours each with standardized start times of 9 am, 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm.
• We use our own UA Zoom accounts and offer Zoom training and class technical host support.
• Field trips (meeting at local museums, walking tours, community service projects etc.) will be considered and can be submitted as options provided they take into account the health and safety of members.
• *Tentative Green Valley - 8 weeks (Jan 24 to March 18, 2022): We have added an option for Green Valley In-person but this is very tentative. We are considering the possibility of a limited spring restart of that campus on Wednesdays and Thursdays. It will take a combination sufficient study group leaders willing to teach, members willing to attend and most importantly volunteers willing to step up to run the campus operations - especially with A/V support. 
• Please read about our current COVID-19 protocols for in-person classes here.

Please note:

• Submissions are considered as they come in. The sooner you apply, the better chance your requested schedule will be approved. The next opportunity to submit a class proposal is for Summer Session 2022 (dates tbd).

Learn why UA outreach professionals love teaching at OLLI-UA

“OLLI provides a superb link between outreach-minded academics and a refreshingly motivated audience. We learned from that first course to prepare differently... In particular, most of us were surprised by the number and type of questions asked. Guided discussion turned out to be a better format than a lecture series.” - Insights by SGLs from the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona

Video: Learn why study group leader Dan says, "OLLI-UA is the best teaching gig I have ever had ..."

In memorial to SGL Dan Gilmore with the wishes of Dan and his family.