New Insurance Plan
Begins This Fall
A new health insurance plan for University of St. Thomas
students will be available beginning fall 2009. UST has
partnered with Aetna Student Health to provide students with an
affordable, quality health insurance plan option.
The Student Health Insurance plan will cost $429 per semester.
If you already have coverage under your parents' or another
plan, you are encouraged to review your plan to determine if it
has comparative health coverage while at UST.
Consider these questions regarding your current policy:
1. Does the policy cover nonemergency care away from your home
area?
2. Does your plan offer a national prescription drug card?
3. Can you
visit any provider without a referral?
4. Does it have continuation coverage after graduation?
5. Will it cover you while studying abroad?
Highlights
of the 2009-10 plan through Aetna Student Health include:
- $1,000,000 coverage
- No deductible
-
Maximum $5,000 out-of-pocket expense
-
Five visits per year covered at 100 percent for care received at
the UST Student Health Service
- Prescription coverage plan
- Access to local and national preferred providers
- Access to vision, fitness and alternative health care discount
programs
- Travel assistance service and worldwide medical coverage while
studying abroad
- 24-hour nurse telephone line
- Disease management program
- More details about the new Aetna Student Health Insurance
will be mailed this summer and will be available on the Student
Health Web site. Online enrollment will open Aug. 1, 2009, via
UST Murphy Online, with a coverage effective date of Aug. 15,
2009.
For more information, contact the UST Student Health Insurance
Office, (651) 962-6752.
***this
article was taken from the UST Bulletin***
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Go
West 2009
July 20-28
Trip
Highlights
Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Tetons, Grand
Canyon, Monument Valley
Cost:
$775.00
(early registration price - deadline May 26th)
The Go West tour will take you from a student or
scholar on campus to an adventurer exploring the natural wonders
of Western America. Your travels will take you through the
waiving wheat of the plain lands, over 8000 ft. mountain passes,
through canyons, and across deserts. Are you ready to see the
soaring peaks of the Tetons, the volcanic activity of
Yellowstone, and one of the natural wonders of the world the
Grand Canyon?
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Borrowing
Closet
Do you have items that can't fit in your suitcase? Items you think new
international students would appreciate next fall?
If so, please consider donating them to OISS starting the week of
Monday, May 11.
Items should be in a box (with a lid or cover).
Items particularly needed:
- sheets/bedding (must be cleaned prior to submission
- plates, silverware, and other kitchen utensils
- electronic items that are still in good working conditions
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OISS/MSS
Graduation Reception 
Dear graduating students and exchange students,
In appreciation of your hard work and the completion of your studies here at St.
Thomas, the OISS and the Multicultural Student Services staff would like to
invite you, your family and friends to a reception in your honor.
WHAT: Graduation Reception
WHEN: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Murray-Herrick, Fireside Room
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be provided.
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Student mailbox closing begins May 25
Campus Mail Services will begin closing mailboxes Monday, May 25. With more than
5,000 mailboxes to close, this process takes several days. Mailboxes will be
reopened the last week of August 2009 for the fall semester.
Forwardable mail (mail that is posted as first class, first-class presort,
Express, Priority mail or paid magazine subscriptions will be sent automatically
to each student's permanent address. Students may choose an alternate address by
filling out a pink forwarding card that is available at Campus Mail Services
(the Post Office window), lower level, Murray-Herrick Campus Center.
UPS, Federal Express, Speedy and DHL are delivery services that cannot be
forwarded. If you receive a package from one of these services after your
mailbox closes, we will e-mail you and hold the package for pick-up.
Campus Mail Services is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Students may submit a request to keep their mailbox open for the summer by
signing up at Campus Mail Services' stamp sales window. Sign up before Monday,
May 25, to avoid misdirected mail. If you choose to keep your mailbox open for
the summer, make certain your mail is picked up weekly.
Graduating seniors may elect to keep their mailboxes open until mid-July.
Students going abroad for fall should make arrangements to tag and close their
mailboxes prior to leaving. Forwardable mail will be sent to your permanent
domestic address.
Faculty and staff are reminded that distribution to mailboxes should be kept to
a minimum a week before mailboxes close. Intercampus mail from closed mailboxes
will be returned to the originating department if it can be determined.
Faculty and staff: Ask students to give you stamped, self-addressed envelopes
for final papers and binders. Campus Mail Services can help students determine
proper postage for these items.
Questions? Call Campus Mail Services, (651) 962-6350, or Shipping and Receiving,
(651) 962-6355.
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