Getting Involved

Representatives from our Thailand and London campuses recently visited the home campus to get acquainted with the administrators and departments with which they regularly interact. While they were here, they had the opportunity to take part in the annual Student Involvement Fair and encourage students to consider getting involved in study abroad.

From Thailand (L-R) Maria Vargara, coordinator of the Psychology program; Stephen Lay, coordinator of the Media Communications program; and James Jain, coordinator of the Business & Management programs.

London Regent's College representatives Valery Kaneko and Mark Allinson visit with Study Abroad coordinator Kim McGrath and Education major Molly Patton.

NOW is the Time to Sign Up for WWW15

October 7 is Webster Works Worldwide Community Service Day.

If your campus plans to participate in WWW this year, WWW coordinator Heather Arora and her team want to make sure they have information about your project and that you get T-shirts to your volunteers. It's important that you get your Project Confirmation Form in by this Friday, Sept. 11.

You can fax it to 314-968-7076. If you have questions, please contact Dana Jones in Academic Affairs at 314-968-6919.

Reminder:

A student may drop a class up to the Friday of the second week of the term. After that time, it is considered a withdrawal. Because dropping a class later than the second week causes serious complications with financial aid and billing, there can be no exceptions to this policy.

REFUNDS
REFUNDS
REFUNDS

The Bursar's Office has prepared an informative question-answer sheet to assist with questions regarding student account refunds.

Webster’s Electronic Billing Statement and Payment System

The Bursar's Office reminds us that, starting this month, paper statements will no longer be mailed. Students will receive an e-mail (at their webster.edu address) each time a statement is published. If they prefer, they may change or add additional e-mail addresses as well.

Please remind your students to use their Connections ID and logon to view their statements. Students can also set up view and payment access for authorized payers.

Need more information? Visit the Bursar web page to view an Online Tutorial, check out our Frequently Asked Questions section, or download a Guide to Viewing Electronic Statements and Paying On-Line.

Coming Up: the 2009 Worldwide Directors Meeting

Directors from every part of the Webster world will be converging on the home campus for the annual Worldwide Directors meeting, September 20-23. The theme this year is "Welcome Home! Celebrating Consistency, Collaboration and Change."

Details can be found on the Worldwide Directors Meeting Web page

And while the cat's away....

A Late Summer Night's Dream

It was a dark and stormy night, approaching the witching hour, as little fairies ventured out, spreading their green fairy dust in Academic Affairs. As the fairy dust came to rest on adjunct letters of appointment, paper started whirling through the air and suddenly took off, flying at rapid speed to their final destination. Each adjunct awoke the next morning to the wonders of having their letter of appointment in their e-mail inbox.

Or……………on a calm Thursday (September 3rd), through the “magic” of technology and programmers working with Academic Affairs, Theresa Altmann was able to run a program that scheduled e-mail letters of appointment to be sent to adjuncts at 11:00 p.m. Adjuncts did find their new electronically delivered letters in their inboxes the next morning.

It appears that our first electronic adjunct letters of appointment went very smoothly. We wish to thank all those in Information Technology and Academic Affairs that made this leap into the 21st century possible. Paper letters of appointment were mailed this week. Please remember: beginning Fall 2, Academic Affairs goes green by sending ONLY electronic adjunct letters of appointment.

Wishes do come true…

When Entering New Course Sections...

... into the Catalog Maintenance portion of CARS, please remember to leave the “Bill Code” field blank. If there is text in this field when you are entering a new course section, remove the information as it could cause billing errors. The Bursar’s Office runs a report which determines the correct information for the field.

What are you doing…
Friday, Sept. 18?

That’s when Webster University’s School of Business & Technology and School of Communications will present a “TweetUp” with Twitter creator/chairman/co-founder and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 10 a.m. at Webster’s Loretto-Hilton Center.

To watch the event online, go to www.webster.edu/jackatwebster September 18th to connect to our live webstream.

The Webster Family Tree

Welcome to those staff members who recently joined the Webster family:

Nicole Gainey, Department Associate, Old Post Office campus, MO

Farewell to those departing:

None to report at this time

Congratulations to those staff members who have recently"branched out" within the Webster family:

Margaret Reed, formerly Director of Los Angeles AFB, Director of Colorado Springs Metro as of Oct. 5, replacing Jo Clifford

Bill Lynch, formerly Professor of Theatre and Dance at the home campus, assuming duties as Resident Director of our London campus, replacing David Parrish

We would like to hear from you!

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Due to our Upcoming Directors Meeting,
the Next Issue will be

the week of
September 28, 2009