The establishment of smart classrooms, a faculty training and development center as well as purchasing equipment and wiring classrooms were identified as major infrastructure needs. Plans are to team faculty who are content specialists with instructional technologists. Each college will have an instructional technologist to assist with course and curriculum development. PC and MAC platforms are supported through the university and faculty use NT 4.0 on their workstations. There are approximately 15 labs available for student use.
Data seem to indicate that students use the labs basically for word processing.
Plans are to require students to purchase computers after the infrastructure is in place and there is a move towards a technology competency requirement for students. Curriculum and instructional development activities seem to have been frequent. Faculty interest groups have been formed for support and consultation. Portable technology units are used in classrooms and faculty development is currently conducted in one of the student labs. A total of 40 workshops and seminars on PageMaker, Macintosh, MS Access, MS Excel, MS FrontPage and MS Word have been conducted for faculty and staff over the past year.