Enrollment and Policies

ENROLLMENT DETAILS

FALL 2024 

Enrollment for all courses is accepted each quarter once the brochure has been posted on the website nualumnae.org We cannot provide advance notice of the posting.

Pricing

  • EACH 90 minute, 9-week course is $225.00. The fee covers in-person attendance and grants access to each live-streaming in-person lecture and the weekly recording which is available for 6 days only following the lecture. For those attending in person, a registration card must be shown each time you enter.
  • Course fees are not prorated; late registration requires payment of the full course price. Late registrants will NOT be able to access recordings from prior weeks if the links and passcodes have expired.
  • There is no multi-course discounting.
  • In-person per diems are available: $30 per session by cash or check made payable to Northwestern University. Per diem students will not have access to lecture recordings. There are no online per diems.

Attendance Options and Timing

  • In-person attendance: To ensure receipt of materials for in-person attendance, enrollment must be completed by Friday, August 30, 2024.  Materials will be mailed about two weeks before the courses begin. If one enrolls after Friday, August 30, 2024, materials will be held for pick up at Norris Center on the first day of the course.

The class entry card must be shown each week when entering the lecture hall. Those arriving without their card will be given a temporary card, ONE time only. Thereafter, a replacement entry card will be required for $30.

  • Online/ live stream attendance: To access the live stream webinar, the TWO step enrollment process must be completed by midnight, Thursday, September 19, 2024. If you have not completed enrollment by Thursday, September 19, we cannot guarantee timely entry to the first sessions on Tuesday, September 24, the first day for Courses A and B or Thursday, September 26, the first day for Courses C and D.

How to Enroll

New Students: If this is your first Alumnae course ever, create an account profile as “General Public.”

  • Verify your email address. Typos or an unused email address will make it impossible to send you necessary information.
  • One needs to create an account profile once. If the system does not accept your email address, it is likely that you already have an account on the website. For assistance with issues creating an account, complete the Help Form on the Norris Box Office website. Do not create another account. 

Returning and New Students

  • Follow the steps to enroll. An email confirmation from [email protected] verifies your payment. 
  • If you do not receive a confirmation email, complete the Help Form on the Norris Box Office website to verify your enrollment.
  • No new enrollments will be accepted after 11:59 p.m. on October 17, 2024.

Zoom Webinar Registration to access the live stream

  • To view the live stream, you must take the additional step of registering for Zoom Webinar through the link(s) provided in your payment confirmation email. (Scroll down the email to find the link.) Each course has its own registration link.
  • Zoom will ask you to confirm your name and email. You only have to do this once each quarter for each course . Then, you will receive a confirmation email ([email protected]) containing information about joining the webinar. 
  • Reminder emails will be sent from Norris Virtual 24 hours and one hour before each session.
  • If you do not see the email with the attendee link, check your spam, junk, trash, or deleted messages folders for an email from Norris Virtual <[email protected]>. 
  • Plan on “arriving” at the session at least 10 minutes before the session begins.
  • Your link is specific to your email and may not be shared. Sharing your links may void your registration without refund.

Access to Recordings

  • The recording link and passcode will be provided by email within 24 hours after the live session concludes. The email will come from Norris Virtual <[email protected]>.
  • The recording will be available for six days following that week’s session.
  • Your recording link and passcode is specific to your email and may not be shared. Sharing your links may void your registration without refund.

For support from Norris Technical Services OR Norris Box Office, please fill out this form on our website nualumnae.org/content/online-help-form 

POLICIES 

University Policy: In order to respect copyrights, rights of publicity, and other intellectual property rights, we forbid the taking of photographs or the making of video or audio recordings of lectures and class materials

Course Refunds

If one withdraws from class prior to the first class/webinar ,

  • a $10 cancellation fee must be purchased online and a full refund will be given to the credit card used for the initial purchase.
  • If you have enrolled to attend in-person, the class entry card must be returned before the refund is issued.
  • Send materials to:

Alumnae Continuing Education 

P.O. Box 2789, Glenview, IL 60025

If one withdraws from class after the first class/webinar, 

  • a $10 cancellation fee must be purchased online.
  • $30 must be purchased online in addition to the cancellation processing fee if withdrawing after the first class.
  • $60 must be purchased online in addition to the cancellation processing fee if withdrawing after the second class.
  • If you have enrolled to attend in-person, the class entry card must be returned before the refund is issued.
  • Send materials to:

Alumnae Continuing Education 

P.O. Box 2789, Glenview, IL 60025 

  • Thereafter, no refunds are given. 
  • Credits are not given for future classes.
  • A transfer, at no cost, to another class offered during the same quarter is an option. To request a transfer, complete the Help Form on the Norris Box Office website. Access to the live stream session and recording will depend on when the transfer is requested.

Parking for In-person Attendance:

Busing from Ryan Field is no longer available. 

Parking options are: 

  • City of Evanston Public Parking : Public parking garage located four blocks southwest of Norris Center, east of Chicago Avenue. It can be accessed from Clark Street or Church Street. (Church runs eastbound only.)
  • Sheridan Road: Sheridan Road, south of campus, is metered parking.
  • Segal Visitors Center: Pay-on-site parking is available in the Segal Visitors Center Parking Garage, located at the Campus Drive entrance on South Campus.

Accessible Parking: A limited number of accessible spaces for people with disabilities are available in the parking lot northeast of the McCormick Tribune Center. To reach this lot, enter the south campus on Campus Drive; go to the first stop sign and turn left into the lot. Additional accessible spaces are on the upper level, eastern end of the two-tier parking lot just north of the Segal Visitor Center. A visitor parking pass is not required to park in a parking space that is designated as accessible in this lot, provided that your vehicle has a valid government license plate or placard for people with disabilities.