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Graduation Applications for Spring 2010 graduates and Summer 2010 graduates, who desire to participate in the Spring 2010 commencement ceremony are available online under Forms and Information, in CampusNet. If you are planning to graduate in Spring or Summer 2010 and participate in Spring 2010 Commencement, your completed application is due December 1, 2009. After December 1, 2009, graduation dates for those students with incomplete applications will be moved to a later session.

NOTE: that your graduation application is not complete until any/all church verification letters have been received.

For additional information or assistance contact the Academic Advising Center at registrar@dts.edu or 214-841-3608.

Event

The graduating class will have a meeting on Thursday, December 3 from 10:40-11:30am in Campbell 204.  You will receive chapel credit for being in attendance at this meeting. Please make plans to be there as important information regarding your gradation will be discussed.

Join Mike and Penny Pocock for a Christmas Open House at their home in Garland. All students, faculty and friends of world missions are invited. Come-and-go from 7-9pm on Friday, Dec. 4. Participation is free. Sign up at the WMIS Office by noon on Thursday, Dec. 3.
Contact: Rose Ann Hopwood, rhopwood@dts.edu, 214-841-3684

Joni Eareckson Tada will be speaking in a special chapel service on Monday, December 14, at 1:00–2:15pm. A question and answer time will follow from 2:25–3:40pm. Participants for the Q & A panel will include DTS professors who have participated in the new class, “A Biblical Theology of Suffering, Disability & the Church.” A special disability dance group, 16 girls, ages 5 to 13, will perform at 3:25 pm, led by Julie Mayberry.

The chapel will be open to all DTS students and faculty, as well as anyone interested hearing Joni and learning more about our course and her ministry, so please come and invite your friends.

Deadline

Don't forget, every new (Summer or Fall 2009) female student is to make an appointment with Dr. Lynn Etta Manning, The Advisor for Women Students. Online and extension campus women students may arrange for a phone appointment. Call Rachel Wissink (214-841-3789) to select a date and time that is convenient for you before the end of the Fall 2009 Semester.

The payment deadline for the Spring 2010 session is Friday, December 4, 2009. You must make your payment in the Business office by 4:00PM. Online payments must be completed by 5:00PM. If full payment for the Spring session is not received by the deadline, all Spring courses will be dropped. If you have additional questions regarding your payment, please contact the Bursar, Sara Rosenbeck at srosenbeck@dts.edu.

Fall 2009 Graduates: Please be sure to respond to your Graduate Information Email from the Alumni Office by Friday, December 11! This will help establish your Alumni File. If you are graduating and have not received a Graduation Congrats email, please contact the Alumni Office, alumni@dts.edu.

Brown Bag

Enjoy free pizza with Jack & Susie Weertman, missionaries in Cambodia, and find out what God is doing through their agency, Pathway to Hope (www.pathwaytohopeministries.org). Pathway's mission is to train and develop pastors and leaders who will take the Gospel to their own towns and villages. The Brown Bag meets at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 8, in Walvoord 105. Contact Rose Ann Hopwood, rhopwood@dts.edu. Free pizza provided.

Academic

Fall 2009 graduates who have borrowed Stafford Loan funds while attending DTS are required to complete a Stafford Loan Exit Interview in order to receive their diploma. A hold will be placed on the Seminary records of those students who do not complete the interview. We will be holding two sessions - please plan on attending ONE of them. They are scheduled for Wednesday, December 9th and Thursday December 10th, both in Todd 114 at 11:30am. You will be required to provide address information for two references for your lender at the exit interview, so please bring that information with you. One of your references must be a next of kin. The two references cannot share an address. You should also bring your expected employer’s name and address. Please contact Jill Wilson at 214-841-3602 or jwilson@dts.edu with any questions.

The Global Counseling Initiative will be awarding five $500 scholarships to students who meet the following criterion: *Currently enrolled in the BC program at DTS
*Maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0
*Has completed at least 30 credit hours of course work
*Desire to counsel overseas on either long term or short term missions (not required but preferred)
*1,000 word essay
If you are interested in applying for this year's scholarship, please contact Jenny Crow 214-874-4406 or jcrow@dts.edu for more information.

General Info

During your Seminary career, you'll want to begin building a library that can serve you in ministry. For 75 years DTS has published Bibliotheca Sacra, an outstanding resource for biblical exposition, theology, and ministry concerns. Faculty also review about 100 books a year in Bib Sac. Make sure this essential tool is part of your library. Each quarter pick up the latest print edition of Bib Sac at the Mail Services window. Also you can access Bib Sac online. Write bibsac@dts.edu for instructions. Take advantage of a special offer too: all back issues from the 60s to the present are $1 each! Drop your payment (credit card, check, or cash) in campus mail. Include your name, box number, and phone or email. There's never been a better offer!

The DTS Book Center is closing out all non-DTS art and gifts at cost. Crosses, photo frames, Willow Tree figurines, wall art, candle holders, jewelry, shofars, teapots, mugs, stained glass and more are available at huge savings.

Enrollment has started for the Spring 2010 five month TMS payment plan. Please go to http://www.dts.edu/departments/campus/financialaid/tms/ to learn more about TMS. To enroll, please contact TMS at www.afford.com/dts or 1-800-722-4867. If you have additional questions, please contact the DTS Bursar at srosenbeck@dts.edu or 214-841-3632.or toll free 800-DTS-WORD x 3632.

To prepare for a potential flu season emergency, the seminary has established the following policy:

1)  For updates on the campus-wide status of flu conditions at DTS, please visit http://www.dts.edu/flu.

 2)  If flu conditions require cancellation of a class session or other changes for the course, an email will be sent to all class members.

 3)  In the event of a major campus emergency at DTS, course requirements, deadlines, and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances beyond the professor’s control.

 In order to provide you with helpful and up-to-date information about the H1N1 flu, a webpage, http://www.dts.edu/flu is now available.  It is important for to monitor that page regularly in order to know what DTS is doing and what it is recommending with respect to the flu. There you will find also a reporting form that will enable the seminary to track what is occurring with the disease and thereby make informed decisions.

If you are receiving a scholarship or gift from an organization sending funds directly to DTS, you MUST give a copy of the award letter or other correspondence (for example, email) to the Bursar before the payment deadline for the semester for which the scholarship is to be applied. You are required to pay by the semester’s payment deadline any remaining balance after subtracting out the outside scholarship/gift. If you have any questions, please contact the Bursar at srosenbeck@dts.edu or call 214-841-3632 or toll free 800-DTS-WORD x 3632..