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Program Attendance
Attendance at any public event involves certain unavoidable risks such as exposure to or infection by transmissible diseases, viruses, and other illnesses (including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and its variants). Your presence at events or programs hosted by The Pennsylvania State University indicates your assumption of any and all such risk as well as your agreement to adhere to all University policies including, but not limited to, those intended to mitigate the spread of transmissible illnesses. As a member of our community or guest, it is your responsibility to practice basic health, safety, and sanitation measures and avoid engaging in Penn State sponsored programs and activities when symptomatic with any commonly spread transmissible illness.
Course Confirmation
If you register online, you will receive an instant email confirmation once your course registration and payment are complete. If you register by mail, you will receive an email confirmation once the noncredit registration office at University Park has received and entered your course registration.
You will receive an email confirming course-specific details — including date, time, and location — the week prior to each in-person course. For online courses held via Zoom, you will receive an email with the Zoom link the day before the course.
Course Cancellation
If you would like to cancel your course registration for a refund, you must call the office at least one week before the start of the course. To be eligible for a refund on a multi-session course, all sessions must be canceled. Cancellation (with refund) for particular sessions is not allowed. Your account will be credited after canceling a course, and any credits on your account at the end of the semester will be refunded back to you via the payment method used, either check or credit card.
Waitlists
We often have waitlists for courses. If you cannot attend a course for which you are registered, please call and let us know so we may add someone from the waitlist. If a seat opens in a course that has a waitlist, our office will email and call the first on the list. If we do not get a response in 48 hours, we will call the next person on the list.
Parking
OLLI at Penn State York is fortunate that our members do not have to pay a fee for parking. OLLI members may park in the following areas of campus:
- The parking lot in front of the Graham Center for Innovation and Collaboration
- The lower-level parking lot, behind the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center
- Handicapped parking is available right outside the doors of the Main Classroom Building with a valid state-issued hanging permit or license plate.
New members should pick up a parking pass in the OLLI office prior to their first course. These passes should be placed on your dashboard while on campus.
Classroom Guidelines
- Wear your OLLI lanyard/nametag at OLLI courses and events.
- Arrive to class on time.
- Refrain from perfumes and colognes.
- Respect others’ rights to hold opinions and beliefs that differ from your own.
- If you cannot hear the instructor, please let the Course Coordinator know while you are in class.
- Turn your cell phone to vibrate, and step outside of the OLLI classroom to text or take a call.
- Refrain from having conversations with other members until the course has ended.
- Please stay home if you are sick.
Inclement Weather
If Penn State York cancels classes, OLLI classes are canceled. If Penn State York is on a two-hour delay, the 9:00 a.m. class is canceled, but the 11:00 a.m. (and after) classes will be held pending the ability of the instructor to arrive safely. In the event of a two-hour delay, an email will be sent to all 11:00 a.m. class registrants informing them if the instructor is holding the class. A post will also be made on Facebook. It is your responsibility to check one or more of the following if there is inclement weather:
- OLLI at Penn State York’s Facebook page
- Penn State York website
- WSBA 910 AM
- WGAL TV 8
Illness
If you have an active cold, cough, or fever, please stay home and take care of yourself. Help prevent the spread of illness.