Bowling Green, Ky. - The 2007 WKU Winter Term is under way with enrollment topping the mark set in the first year.

More than 2,100 students are taking classes, an increase over the approximately 1,580 students who took classes during the University’s first Winter Term in 2006. There are 148 faculty members leading 218 sections during the 2007 Winter Term.

The WKU Winter Term runs from Jan. 2-19. The University will be closed Jan. 15 in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

WKU Winter Term courses are on the Bowling Green campus as well as the regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtown/Fort Knox and Owensboro and online. WKU also has 68 students participating in 14 Study Abroad courses during the Winter Term. Courses are being offered in Chile, India, Great Britain, England, Ireland, Mexico, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.

The Winter Term program is partnering with the Campus Activities Board (CAB) to provide the following special activities for students on the Bowling Green campus:

*Jan. 4: Free lunch for Winter Term students and Winter Term faculty at Fresh Food Company in the Downing University Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
*Jan. 9: Free showing of The Prestige in the Downing University Center Theater at 7 p.m.
*Jan. 17: Free Hot Chocolate Study Break Stations in various locations throughout campus.

Students can move toward graduation by taking classes during Winter Term. The Winter Term also gives students additional opportunities to take classes that are difficult to get into or prerequisites they need for other courses.

For information about the 2007 WKU Winter Term, visit www.wku.edu/winter or call (270) 745-5308.
The WKU Winter Term Office is a unit of the Division of Extended Learning and Outreach (DELO). DELO delivers quality credit and non-credit educational opportunities to individuals, organizations and the public using flexible and accessible formats. For more information on DELO, visit www.wku.edu/delo.

More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

For information, contact Bill Oldham at (270) 745-1926.

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