The Student Recreation Center and Keystone Hall Swimming Pool will be closed from Monday, August 23 – Friday, August 27.   We will begin our regular fall semester hours beginning on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 1 pm. 

        Tracy Turner, office manager, Recreational Services

Please join the Kutztown University Foundation on Tuesday, August 31 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in McFarland Student Union 223, to thank Ron Lewis for the many years of outstanding service to KUF and  Kutztown University and to wish him the best in retirement.  To RSVP, please call ext. 3-1394 or e-mail lkeller@kutztown.edu.

        Kutztown University Foundation

Desire2Learn Faculty Update: Please remember that KU is no longer using Blackboard as its learning management system, instead, we have fully transitioned to Desire2Learn (D2L).  As you work on updating and editing your courses please feel free to contact Professor Will Jefferson in the Department of Learning Technologies for questions about D2L training.

Other helpful resources for D2L can be found by clicking on the following links and e-mail addresses:

For faculty: http://www.kutztown.edu/academics/lt/ltc/D2L.html

For your students: http://www.kutztown.edu/online/D2L_student/

For general questions or training on D2L: Professor Jefferson; wjeffers@kutztown.edu

For questions about putting courses online: zigner@kutztown.edu

For D2L difficulties or help: Brenneck@kutztown.edu  

Updates on workshop opportunities and new resources will be sent to you on a regular basis between now and the beginning of the Fall 2010 semester.

** Students will be given access to courses on August 25 and 26.  If you need them to have access to your course earlier than that please contact Jim Brenneck.

        James Hubbard, Provost Office

Important Turnitin® Announcement/Outage: There will be a special maintenance window and outage for the Turnitin service on Saturday, September 4 from 1 - 9 p.m.  All Turnitin services may be unavailable for all users during these times. For assignments due during this window, we recommend that instructors change the due date and alert their students.

        James Hubbard, Assistant Provost