The social and extracurricular activities on a campus play an important part in making a more complete educational experience, and technology can play an important role in creating and managing these social communities. Therefore, it is important to understand and appreciate the tools that facilitate electronic communities on campus, allowing for greater communication, interaction, and integration within the broad campus milieu. We have several locations - public labs, library, electronic classrooms, where the students access the computers 24 hours a day. We have over 200 public access computers for 2500 students in residence.
All students use email and other software applications on a regular basis.
Faculty and administrators expect all students to use email and rely on it as a means of communicating with students. For example, the schedules to register for courses and request dormitory rooms are sent only by email. Every student has 10MB of Web space for personal Web pages. The Student Electronic Portfolio, available to all students in fall 2000, will have 50MB of Web space for every student and will be maintained over a period of 10 years. Contact information is available through several online databases and through a campus wide LDAP directory.