Most Summer 2016 courses offered by the LDT program are underway, and enrollment is strong. Many of our courses filled to capacity, and the remainder were enrolled at expected levels. Thank you to our students who enrolled early.
Speaking of early enrollment, registration for Fall 2016 courses is now open via LionPATH! If you’ve not yet registered for our offerings in the Fall term, please don’t delay. You will not need to pay for your courses at the time of enrollment—registration and billing are separate processes, and your final balance for Fall courses will be due in mid-August.
If your personal or professional situation changes and you face a need to drop a course, there’s a specialized and directed procedure for World Campus students to drop a course. Note that there’s a difference in terminology that sometimes causes momentary confusion: a single course is dropped, but dropping all courses is called a withdrawal—you are withdrawing from the university for a whole semester (or longer). There are differing financial ramifications and administrative requirements for a drop versus a withdrawal.
To peek at the back-office side of our program, this summer we’re busy developing new courses and new certificate programs to broaden our offeringsfor our students. We hope to roll-out complete revisions and as well as new courses in the upcoming 12 to 18 months. Course development and delivery to a Penn State level of quality is a highly involved process, so we’re chipping away. Given that Penn State believes that A Penn State Course is a Penn State Course regardless of campus, location, or instructor, our work to deliver online courses that equal the courses taught on-campus is comprehensive. We’re excited about what lies ahead for us.
Good luck to all of our students for their summer courses. And a warm welcome to our newest students.