Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning

Born Hanna Gruenbaum to a prominent Jewish family in Nuremberg, she studied choreography and worked in the Paris fashion industry.

[4] The Fromm Institute offers some 75 courses annually, spread over fall, winter, and spring terms.

Faculty are primarily emeriti professors from universities and colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Student membership fees cover half the program costs, with the balance coming from gifts, grants, and endowment earnings.

In addition to the Fromm Institute’s administrative offices and four large classrooms, Fromm Hall also contains USF’s only all-female residence, housing 175 freshman and sophomore women, facilities for the fine arts program, a women’s institute, and the parish offices of St. Ignatius Church.