How do I register for the Winter 2025 session?
  • Older adult auditor registration for the Winter 2025 will open on Monday, December 23, 2024
  • Complete and submit your course request form to our office at registrar@purchase.edu.
  • Do not submit registration forms to the Registrar’s Office prior to the start of registration.
  • Requests will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • We will email you if there are any issues.

Engagement Principles for Older Adult Auditors in Purchase College Courses:

  1. Some faculty members will encourage auditors to participate/speak in class; others will not. Please respect the wishes of each individual instructor;
  2. Note that scholarly perspectives and lenses change over time. Please embrace each course’s unique scholarly perspective, even if it leaves out material that your previous education taught you to regard as fundamental;
  3. Faculty in a large modern university system such as the State University of New York (SUNY) have many tasks to perform in addition to teaching and advising. Given this reality, please do not seek out faculty during office hours or between classes (they often have only 20 minutes between two 1 hour 40-minute class meetings). You can always ask questions via email and/or request a brief meeting, which they will honor if they can;

Please do not:

  1. ask faculty for permission to join a course until Older Adult Auditing registration officially begins. It is not until that date that faculty know how many will be in their course(s).
  2. attend a class before you have officially registered. This is a Purchase College policy to ensure student safety.
  3. ask to take exams or do assignments for grades. Some courses have large enrollments and faculty members are often on tight deadlines to complete graded work for matriculated students in more than one course.
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