Introduction
Many of our 61 newcomers provided their opinions about their introduction to LLI and their courses in the Council’s recent new member survey. The good news is that most of the comments were positive. The negative feedback is valuable, however, since the survey was undertaken with a genuine desire to learn how our organization can improve.
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Introduction
On Saturday, February 8, registration for LLI classes will enter the 21st century. No longer will the registration committee spend hours adjusting enrollments while never being sure their decisions were optimal for LLI members.
Since LLI has grown in members and in class offerings, the time has come to automate.
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Get Instant feedback about course availablity during registration
LLI is using a different registration process for this coming Spring 2020 semester. We want to give you a heads up so that we are all ready for the changes.
Here are the key dates: the catalog will be available next Friday,
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11:00 – 12:30 a.m.
GIVING EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS
Are you making your point or putting your audience to sleep? Have you ever attended a bad presentation, even if the subject matter was interesting? What makes an effective presentation with PowerPoint® or Keynote®? You’ll learn techniques, strategies, and best practices for presentations that cater to different learning styles.
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11:00 – 12:30 a.m.
IMAGES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD: THE 1960s
Our generation grew up with certain core beliefs: the United States was good, the Soviet Union evil; democracy was good, communism bad; God favored the United States; we would be wealthier than our parents; the future was bright. As we came of age in the 1960s,
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11:00 – 12:30 a.m.
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE MUSIC AND CAREERS OF RECORDING ARTISTS FROM THE 1950’s AND EARLY 1960’s IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Based on personal interviews with 100 top recording artists from the 1950s and 1960s, author Anthony Musso corrects longtime inaccuracies and myths that have plagued the artists’ biographies for more than 50 years.
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A Semester of Firsts
We celebrate a semester of firsts. We can welcome a record number of Bard faculty teaching individual courses at LLI this spring as well as a record number of LLI member presenters. Curriculum is also testing the popularity of a new scheduling option by offering the same course in the first and fifth periods to better accommodate members’ varying schedules.
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Theater, Culture and Music
Lou Trapani is back on January 8 to discuss theater and culture, followed by Donald Fraser, the educator at the Mills Mansion presenting stories of the Titanic sinking from a unique point of view.
On January 15, journalist Anthony Musso will share his personal stories of some of the top 100 recording artists of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Off-Friday Classes add Variety to Bard LLI
by Carmela Gersbeck
If sitting in a classroom doesn’t appeal to you or you want to add some variety to your LLI experience, consider taking one of the many off-Friday classes. They were a success in the fall semester,
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Welcome
We are delighted to welcome you to membership in the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College. As Tom Esposito, LLI President, suggested in your acceptance letter, please take some time to visit our website, lli.bard.edu, where you can read our recent newsletters, view the LLI Annual Calendar and our Bard campus parking map,
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