The Senior Citizen Audit Program was created by the Rutgers University Board of Governors to permit retired New Jersey residents, age 62 or older, to audit courses on a space-available, noncredit basis. There are no tuition costs for auditing courses. Senior auditors do not receive academic credit for audited courses.
Undergraduate courses offered by the Department of Jewish Studies are open to auditors at the discretion of the professor. It is not guaranteed that a course will be open to senior auditors.
If you are interested in auditing an upcoming course, please click the button below to send an inquiry to the Jewish Studies Program Coordinator, Stephanie Ulm. She can also be reached via telephone at (848) 932-1717.
Steps To Becoming a Senior Auditor
- Becoming a Senior Citizen Audit Program member
- Complete a Senior Citizen Audit Program membership application, which can be found on the Senior Citizen Audit Program Website
- Once the application is submitted and processed, you will officially become a member of the program
- You will then receive a welcome email with information about the program and instructions for registering to audit courses.
- Selecting a course
- Once registration opens for a semester, review the courses being offered and determine which classes you may be interested in auditing.
- If there is a course that interests you, reach out to the Jewish Studies Program Coordinator, Stephanie Ulm. She can also be reached via telephone at (848) 932-1717, via email at
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , or by clicking the "Send an Email Inquiry" button above. - Approximately 2 - 3 weeks before the start of each semester, a finalized list of all courses available for senior auditing will be sent out to anyone who has inquired about auditing courses
- Just because you have been accepted into the Senior Citizen Audit Program or into an audited course doesn't guarantee placement in a course.
- Placement in a course is completely up to the discretion of the professor. Please do not assume that because a course is available to auditors, you are automatically permitted to attend. They need the professor’s approval first.
- Obtaining permission from the professor
- Once it has been confirmed that a course is available to senior auditors, the senior auditor should email the professor directly and introduce themselves as a Senior Citizen Audit Program member
- The senior should not assume that because a course is available to auditors, they are automatically permitted to attend. They need the professor’s approval first.
- Completing the Permission to Audit form
- Once the professor agrees, the senior auditor completes the Permission to Audit form, which can be found on the Senior Citizen Audit Program Website.
- The form includes the course information and the professor’s approval.
- The registration deadline is firm. Even if a professor gives permission, registration can't be completed after the semester registration deadline has passed.
- Once the Permission to Audit form is received by Senior Citizen Audit Program, they take care of the actual registration process, including adding the senior auditor to the course and making sure they are enrolled in Canvas.
- Once the professor agrees, the senior auditor completes the Permission to Audit form, which can be found on the Senior Citizen Audit Program Website.
- After registration
- Once the Permission to Audit form has been processed and registration has been completed, the senior auditor is officially registered for the course.
- Access to Canvas and any course material will be available to the Senior Auditor once it's been published by the instructor
- Canvas access may not be available immediately. Professors control when their courses are published, so a senior auditor may be registered but not yet see the course in Canvas. That does not necessarily mean there is a problem with their registration.
Below, you will be able to access the list of available courses for the upcoming semester. Although the courses may be listed as open, that does not guarantee that the instructor is accepting senior auditors. Please contact the Jewish Studies Program Coordinator, Stephanie Ulm, to confirm if a listed course is open to senior auditors.
Please do not reach out to the instructors directly until you have confirmed that their course is open for auditing.
The department asks all auditors to remember that our primary commitment is to our students’ education. Therefore, once you have received confirmation that a class is open or auditing, we ask auditors to kindly observe the following general guidelines:
- Please reach out to the professor directly to confirm you are auditing their class.
- Please confirm with the professor where auditors should sit in the classroom.
- Please confirm with the professor what auditors are expected to prepare for class.
- Once in class, please wait to give answers, ask questions, or offer comments until the professor invites auditors to do so.
See Rutgers University Senior Audit Program for further information.