Baruch College provides the option of e-mail through the Internet to all of its students. Approximately 4,600 students have taken advantage of this opportunity, first offered in the Fall 1996 semester. A program written at BCTC helps students configure their Eudora client for use at Baruch. To ensure privacy, e-mail is downloaded directly to the student's diskette. where it may be stored for future access. Each new semester, a utility will be run to identify exisiting e-mail accounts for students who are no longer registered at Baruch, and to load information on newly registered students.
Advantages are numerous.