Graduation Application Due

If you will be graduating this Fall 2007 semester, you must submit a graduation application by tomorrow, August 24th.  You can find the application along with instructions here.  Make sure to read the instructions before submitting the application to ensure your application is submitted properly.

Last Day To Add A Course

Today, August 23rd, is the last day to add a course for the 16 week or 1st 8-week sessions.  Make sure you send in your email by 3 o’clock today to ensure you are added on time.  There will be no exceptions made.  You can verify all registration deadlines through the Academic Calendar.

Welcome to the Online Courses of Fall 2007 Semester

Greetings!

The UTD Fall 2007 semester officially starts today Aug. 16. We’d like to welcome all new and returning online students! Please see our welcome and online course access information.

Have a great online semester!

GMBA/AIM Virtual Welcome Session in Second Life

As we’ve announced previously, the UT Dallas School of Management has set up its own island in Second Life, “a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.” We would like to invite you to our first Virtual Welcome Session, which will take place on Friday August 17, 2007, at 2:00 pm Central Time in the virtual SOM building in Second Life.

To visit the UTD SOM virtual island and attend the Welcome Session, you must first create a free account at http://www.secondlife.com (click on the “Join Now” button) and download the client software to your computer. After you login to Second Life, , click the Map button and search for “UTD SOM” then select “teleport” to visit our island. You may also use the following slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD SOM/141/70/22/ to get there after you have set up your Second Life account and installed the client.

For more information about UTD SOM island, please visit: http://som.utdallas.edu/secondlife.

So please come to join us and “tour your school” and “meet” GMBA staff, online faculty members and your fellow students! Let us know if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Payment Due August 14th

Payment for full-term and 1st session courses for Fall 2007 is due tomorrow, August 14th – http://controller.utdallas.edu/bursar/deadlines.html  Students who fail to make their payment may be dropped from their courses.

Testing Locations Map Problem

I’ve had a few of you who are getting an early start to setting up your proctored exams (bless you!) contact me reporting problems with the Testing Locations Map. We use a free web service called YourGMap for this, and we’ve found out that they are having some major server issues. It looks like they had a hard drive fail on Thursday morning, and they’re actively working to remedy the situation. They anticipate that maps will be back up and available on Saturday. Thank you for your patience.

Update: The testing locations map is back up.

Fall 2007 GMBA Online Newsletter

Greetings!

Please check out the latest issue of GMBA Online newsletter.

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to all our GMBA and online AIM students who are graduating this Friday! Good luck to all of you in your future endeavors!