Registration Day For Fairfield University’s Institute For Retired Professionals

FAIRFIELD — Your career may be coming to a close, but your intellectual curiosity is still abounding.

University College at Fairfield University invites retired and semiretired individuals older than 55 to learn about its Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP), an association of retired professionals who participate in broadly based monthly symposia, audit a wide range of university courses, and attend special interest programs.

The college will host an open registration day on Tuesday, August 17, from 9 am to 3 pm, at its Dolan campus office and from 4 to 7 pm at Alumni House. (Both sites are on the Fairfield University campus.) Refreshments will be served. IRP participants and those interested in the program can register and select courses, or simply learn more about what it has to offer.

Past symposia topics have included literature, music, art, finance, medicine, psychology, politics, interpersonal relationships, communication, ethics, and environmental concerns.

Benefits of IRP membership include free on-campus parking, use of the Leslie C. Quick Recreational Complex (for an additional fee), and access to the DiMenna-Nyselius Library. Members also receive discounted tickets to Open VISIONS forum, Fairfield University’s distinguished lecture series and Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts performance.

IRP memberships costs $198 per semester; $157 for spouses. Tuition covers cost of instruction and materials, exclusive of textbooks. IRP members can also choose to support the Albert M. Loch Scholarship for the IRP, which subsidizes a deserving matriculated adult University College student each semester. For more information the IRP or the open registration day, contact Elizabeth Hastings at 203-254-4307.