Tucked in a spacious building just off Maryland Parkway, a couple of blocks away from UNLV’s Student Union, there’s a program that has become invaluable to hundreds of seniors.

No, not the kind of seniors that are fourth-year students at UNLV, but rather retired and semi-retired people in the Las Vegas Valley who don’t believe that learning stops when life’s twilight years begin.

It’s called the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a member-driven community of more than 1,100 area folks who take, teach and design courses on everything from short story writing to conversational Italian.

All the courses are non-credit and they don’t go toward any type of degree. There are also no grades.

“We are truly the senior class at UNLV,” joked 65-year-old Alison Kasner of Henderson, who has been a p

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