Newsletter

May 1, 2012

Coming up in RecSports

Splash Bash – Save the Date Mark your calendar! On Wednesday, May 2, noon to 4pm, get ready to kick back, relax and enjoy some live music and refreshments as RecSports presents its annual Splash Bash at the GRE Aquatic Complex. This poolside party is free and open to all currently enrolled UT students. More details to come at www.utrecsports.org/splashbash.

Get Ready for Summer With RecSports- On Tuesday, May 1, registration will begin for all RecSports summer classes and activities, including TeXercise, Group Cycling, intramural sports, the Climbing Wall, outdoor adventure trips and more. To register participants must be enrolled in summer classes or must purchase an Interim Student Pass. The interim pass is required for students not enrolled in summer classes but wish to continue accessing RecSports facilities during the summer months.

RecSports Facilities Closing Early on May 4- RecSports will treat its student staff to an appreciation pool party on Friday, May  4, therefore the Gregory Gym Outdoor Aquatic Complex will close at 2pm on Friday, May 4, while all other RecSports facilities and its administrative offices will close at 3pm on that day.

May is Bike Month.

In recognition of Bike Month, Parking and Transportation Services will be having Bike to UT Day on Wednesday May 2th.  There will be breakfast stations at each of the five guard kiosks on the main campus and the east entrance kiosk at the PRC campus.  Stop by on your bike from 7:30am to 9:30am for a light breakfast, while supplies last, and a chance to enter to win a $50 gift certificate to Mellow Johnny’s bike shop, a U-lock, or a headlight/tail light combo.

University Extension Course Registration Open for Summer and Fall

University Extension (UEX) offers open enrollment to a wide variety of courses from the course inventory of The University of Texas at Austin. Registration is now open for UEX’s Summer and Fall 2012 classroom and online cohort courses.

With UEX courses you can:

• Meet core curriculum requirements.
• Finish up that last course to graduate.
• Take a prerequisite for graduate and professional school.

UEX grades are provided on an official university transcript and included in your cumulative UT GPA. Financial aid can be used to pay for semester-based classroom courses. Check with the financial aid office before registering. To view and register for courses, go to http://uex.webhost.utexas.edu/courses.html.

Looking for a self-paced online course? UEX offers nearly 60 self-paced online courses that can be started at any time, from anywhere. Start a class now, and you could be finished before the fall semester begins. Questions? Call or email us at (512) 471-2900 or uex@austin.utexas.edu.

2012-2013 Student Advisory Committee (SAC)

The UT Counseling and Mental Health Center is currently recruiting for its 2012-2013 Student Advisory Committee (SAC). Find more information and a SAC application on the CMHC homepage at http://cmhc.utexas.edu/.

The deadline for applications is April 30.  Please feel welcome to circulate this information to others!

UT UMHC Groups & Classes

Groups and Classes are available at the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center on issues such as adjustment, stress, anxiety, relationships and graduation. Check out our website for more details: http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/groups.html

OSFS Services: Speed Your Time-to-Degree!

Bevonomics: Bevonomics teaches students how to better manage their money, credit, and debt. Perhaps you had an opportunity to read the article in Friday’s Daily Texan, “Workshop Educates Students on Facts about Leasing.” This is one of several Bevonomics workshops we are offering the campus community this spring. A full schedule of these workshops can be found on our Bevonomics website.

Continuing and Transfer Scholarship Application: Now is also the time for students to go to the Spotlights section of OSFS’s website to apply through for 2012-13 Continuing and Transfer Scholarships. The deadline for this application is April 1, although students who wish to apply for Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarships must complete this by February 24 and students seeking Texas Exes scholarships must finish it by March 1.

FAFSA Completion Assistance: This year’s March 15 FAFSA priority deadline fast approaching, so we are offering students opportunities to learn how to complete the FAFSA – without which we cannot consider them for need-based grants, loans, and work-study in 2012-13. These include an on-line tutorial, “7 Easy Steps to the FAFSA,” and several in-person FAFSA completion sessions during which our counselors will be available on a walk-in basis to help students fill out the FAFSA.

TexasScholarships.org: OSFS also has an on-line service called TexasScholarships.org on which we post information about private scholarship opportunities. TexasScholarships.org also has links to reputable scholarship search engines. It is available 24/7 to all students admitted to or enrolled in the University.

UT4Less: Budget and regulatory limitations make it impossible for every student to receive a grant or a scholarship, but our newest publication, UT4Less, continues to be available on-line to help all undergraduates learn how to make the world-class education UT offers as affordable as possible, and to limit their borrowing to only what they absolutely need.