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<Title>First-Year Experience for Transfer Students</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Transfer Student Seminars (TRS) are one or two-credit courses designed to assist in the successful transition of transfer students from their previous college or university to UMBC. It focuses on developing and understanding the skills needed and the academic expectations to achieve success at an Honors University. The materials covered will complement the work that is being done in upper-level courses in the major, and it will contain academic material selected by the Department that has been identified as a barrier to the success of transfer students in that particular major. <br><br>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/oue">www.umbc.edu/oue</a> or contact Jarrett Kealey in the Office of Undergraduate Education at <a href="mailto:jkealey@umbc.edu">jkealey@umbc.edu</a> or (410) 455-1185.<br>
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<Title>Blackboard Weekly Maintenance Schedule Reminder</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">This is just a friendly reminder to the UMBC campus community of the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2007/09/weekly_blackboa.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard weekly maintenance schedule window</a> from Friday 10 pm to Saturday 1 am. Although this maintenance window is not always utilized, DoIT Staff will now be regularly implementing server updates on the last Friday of each month, including January 25, 2013. Reminder notices about the downtime will be posted several days in advance. Blackboard instructors should take note of the weekly maintenance window, and as a general rule, refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this time. Similarly students should understand that Blackboard may be unavailable each week from Friday 10 pm - Saturday 1 am.<br><br>We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we maintain these critical systems.</div>
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<Title>Library Basics Workshop for Students</Title>
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<Title>Bb Collaborate Down for Maintenance 10 pm 1/26 - 2 am 1/27</Title>
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    The North American Bb Collaborate servers will experience a brief service disruption during our scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, January 26, 2013.  The standard maintenance window runs from Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 22:00 to Sunday, January 27, 2013 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT -5). During this time please expect the servers to be unavailable.</div>
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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 1/25 to 1 am 1/26</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 1/25 to 1 am Saturday 1/26.  This down time is during the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2011/08/blackboard_week.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">regularly scheduled maintenance window</a> and is necessary for DoIT staff to perform routine maintenance. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this down time may cause.</div>
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<Title>Writing Activities Start Next Week, Jan. 22, 2013! If you aren&#8217;t attending, you can participate online!</Title>
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<Title>Blackboard Upgrade Completed Ahead of Schedule</Title>
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<Title>February Library Book Sale</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Wednesday &amp; Thursday<div>February 13 &amp; 14, 2013</div>
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    <div>Location: AOK Library, first floor behind the Reference room</div>
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    <div>We aren't having a book sale in January, but we will be welcoming everyone back with a February book sale.</div>
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