Events

UD Lifelong Learning Open Houses

August 4-7

The University of Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) welcomes community members to discover an exciting lineup of lifelong learning opportunities at open house events Aug. 4–7. These events offer a chance to meet instructors and volunteers, tour classroom locations and learn about the fall courses available.

Open houses will be held at the following locations:

Lewes – Monday, Aug. 4, 10 a.m.–noon at Trinity Faith Education Building
Wilmington – Tuesday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. at Arsht Hall
Ocean View – Wednesday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m.–noon at Ocean View Community Center
Dover – Thursday, Aug. 7, 10 a.m.–noon at Wyoming Church

Beginning Farmer Program (Sussex County)

Tuesday, August 12 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.
University of Delaware Cooperative Extension office | Carvel Center | Georgetown DE

Course registration fee is $100 with sessions taking place at the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension office in Georgetown, 16483 County Seat Highway, Georgetown DE 19947. 

The Delaware Beginning Farmer Program is for new and beginner farmers working in small-scale vegetable and/or fruit production throughout southern Delaware. Through hands-on training, demonstrations, workshops, and self-study, growers will spend an entire season learning and growing with Delaware Cooperative Extension!

Explore the fundamentals of soil fertility and health, basic crop production, integrated pest management, food safety, farm marketing, and so much more!

Sessions will be held every Tuesday, 6:30-8:30, starting August 12 through October 28.  

The Trail to Desegregation Bus Tours

Saturday, August 23 | 8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Howard High School, 401 E 12th St, Wilmington DE

This year’s Brown v. Board of Education Bus Tour will be a ticketed public history event that continues the storytelling of Delaware’s part in the national conversations about the landmark US Supreme Court Case that desegregated public schools.

This program ferries attendees via bus to tour four New Castle County spaces where they are immersed in the stories of attorney Louis Redding and his African American clients whose successful legal challenges to segregation at the state level in 1951 were considered by the Supreme Court alongside other challenges to segregation in Topeka, Kansas, Clarendon, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Prince Edward County, Virginia in the Brown vs. Board decision.

This multi-site tour begins at Howard High School.