A satellite dish downlink provides capabilities for participation in live teleconferences and in the viewing of educational programs. In addition, the college has wired residence hall rooms for television, provided from a headend located in Kelly Library. The college plans to offer local campus channels for college programs and information. A voice mail box is available for every student, and all student rooms have telephone connections. Training in use of email, Internet searching, and software applications is available from both Library and Information Services personnel.
Computers are available in several locations on the campus.
Kelly Library has a number of computers which offer a wide range of campus software. Computer lab hours match the hours of Kelly Library and are extended to 24 hours per day prior to exam periods. Academic departments around the campus have other types of microcomputers and specialized technology available for student projects and assignments. Among them are an acoustics laboratory in the Psychology Department, a gas chromatograph hookup in the Chemistry Department, and a computerized general physics laboratory in the Physics Department. The student government, for example, has established a desktop publishing system which students use to produce the campus newspaper and literary magazine.