Now celebrating our 30th year!
Our office is located in Room 461 on the Ft. Walton Beach campus of the University of West Florida. Click on UWF/NWFSC Joint Campus to view a map of the campus buildings.
While Courses are in session, a CLL volunteer will be the office from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday.
You may contact the CLL Office, as follows:
At this time, there is no requirement to have a parking permit for your car on the UWF Emerald Coast Campus. Please Note: You may only park in unpainted spaces, not in ones marked with yellow paint; those spaces are for UWF faculty and staff only.
If you have a handicap permit you may park in spaces that are marked in blue for handicap parking.
On the UWF FWB campus, our courses are held in Buildings 3, 4, and 8. To minimize walking, you will want to park near one of these buildings.
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Other locations where classes are held (other than UWF Campus) do not normally require parking permits, but you may need to park in an area that is designated for “Guest” parking.
Food and drinks (except for bottled water) are not permitted in the
classrooms, but are allowed in the Auditorium for Special Events.
Our Board meets on the second Wednesday of each month.
The meetings begin at noon and are open to all members. Normally, the Board meets in Building #4, but call 850 863-6548 to verify the
location.
Committees meet at times specified by the committee chairmen. To attend a meeting, or to volunteer to help on a committee, please contact the chairperson of the desired committee. See above Board of Directors list for names of various committees.
We use our enrollment fees for obtaining classroom facilities, the costs of our website, our online registration program, office equipment, insurance, and miscellaneous other operating expenses. After meeting these on-going expenses, we earmark much of the remainder for scholarship and local charitable awards.
In 1995 the original SCLL (now CLL) established an endowment fund for UWF Emerald Coast student scholarships. Prior to 2004 when we became a charity, the endowment had given out an estimated $12,000 in scholarships. Since 2004, the annual amount of funds available has become a combination of endowment funds and our direct CLL contributions. As of the end of 2022, the combination has amounted to $29,750 worth of scholarships given out to UWF students. In addition we've contributed $2,000 to Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) students.
In addition to the scholarships, the CLL also donates to charities. We've donated $6,750 to Take Stock in Children and $3,750 to Children in Crisis.
Any student who requests to withdraw during the first week of a semester will have their fees refunded by check, to be issued by the CLL Treasurer.
Please make your requests by e-mail to cll@uwf.org.
During our January 2024 semester we will only be holding two events.
One will be our required annual membership meeting on Thursday, February 15th. The other will be our
traditional Final Follies on Friday, March 8th.
Both events will be held in the auditorium on the UWF campus
in Ft. Walton Beach. Click here UWF
Campus, for a map that shows the auditorium location.
The concluding event, “Final Follies,” consists of students performing in person, or displaying works they created during the current session.
Bring your lunch and attend these events!
In 1993 a group of retired educators, headed by Dr. Ed Dennery, created an organization known as the “Senior Center for Lifelong Learning.” Its purpose was to serve the educational interests of the senior community in the Fort Walton Beach area. Although there was never a minimum age for enrollees, we later changed our name to simply “Center for Lifelong Learning” to attract adults of all ages.
Our organization is a Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI). Throughout the nation, hundreds of LLIs are joined in an organization called the Road Scholar Institute Network (RSIN).