Big News: The Lyceum takes over the former Baltimore Free University

[David O'Donaghue]

After months of negotiations, the Baltimore Lyceum has officially replaced the former Baltimore Free University to continue to offer adult education classes in partnership with the Village Learing Place. Johns Hopkins announced that it was withdrawning its sponsorship of the BFU in December of 2007, thus creating a leadership void for future offerings. The Village Learning Place had been working with Hopkins in carrying out the logistics of running an adult education program but it was not prepared to take on the entire burden of administration. David O'Donaghue, the director of the Baltimore Lcyeum, had been teaching for the BFU in a cooperative partnership and he came forward and offered his skills and experience of running an adult educational program for the past eight years. In close communcation with Bill Tiefenwerth at the Center for Social Concerns at Hopkins (who had been the chief administrator of the BFU) and Christy Rather (director of education at the Village Learning Place), David has taken on the adminsitration of the new Village Lyceum, a collaborative effort with the VLP to offer quality free adult education to the city of Baltimore.
The new Village Lyceum will be offering classes for the Spring term beginning March 31st and running through May 25th. Stay tuned for the class schedule. Registration is through the Village Learning Place and details will follow.