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System Announcements

• Course Withdrawals (Wednesday, February 1, 2012)
  

  Students are advised that the last date to obtain any refund for a course was January 20, 2012.  Students who still may need to withdraw from a course should notify the Registrar by email as soon as possible.  Withdrawals, although recorded on a student's record, do not affect the academic grade point total.  However, any withdrawal made within the last 3 weeks of the semester are assigned a failing grade.  Deacon Bartholomew J. Merella, Registrar  

• Consortium Courses and WTU Closure (Wednesday, February 1, 2012)
  

  WTU will discontinue offering WTU courses at the end of the Spring 2012 semester.  Those WTU students who still need courses to complete their master's degree or graduate certificate program may register for courses at other Consortium schools, such as Catholic University, Wesley, Howard, Virginia Theological through the WTU Registrar.  Courses for the Summer and Fall 2012 semesters will be listed on the Consortium website sometime in March 2012.  If there is a question about a particular Consortium course satisfying the WTU requirement, contact the WTU Registrar for advice (merella@wtu.edu). 

  Deacon Merella, Registrar   

• Blackboard Anomalies in Internet Explorer 8 (Monday, September 14, 2009)
  

  There are some anomalies in the use of certain functions of Blackboard when users are viewing it in Internet Explorer 8, such as with some parts of the Discussion Boards and especially in viewing posts on those pages.   The difficulty is principally experienced in the way Internet Explorer 8 renders these pages.
  
  Blackboard is aware of the problem but has not yet corrected its code. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer (IE 7 or IE 6) do not manifest these anomalies.  IE 8 is still the best version of Internet Explorer yet in regards to web standards support, except when using Blackboard.
  
  The simplest solution is to keep a copy of the Firefox browser on your computer for use with Blackboard and many of your other browsing needs.  Firefox is universally recognized as one of the best web browsers available today. You can have multiple web browsers on your computer (IE, Firefox, Google's Chrome, etc.) and choose which one you need or wish to run.  To obtain Firefox, visit http://www.firefox.com and download the installation files for the latest version.

  Technical support is provided by Neha Paul (npaul@wtu.edu).