In the future, GSA will strongly oppose any attempt to charge TigerLink fees for graduate students. Maintain and upgrade the public-access modem pool. The benefit of offering this unique service to incoming and current students is difficult to obtain using an economic approach. In the future, GSA will strongly oppose any attempt to eliminate the public-access modem pool. Increase funding for department-specific computer labs.
Graduate students prefer to use computer labs either at home or in their home departments.
Greater funding for departmental labs will increase graduate student productivity. Several departments on campus have computing resources that are woefully inadequate. Computing resources at the College of Education should serve as a model for other departments. Provide information-based resources for students regarding connectivity and accessibility to computing resources. This includes detailed information about setting changes that are needed to transition current students to the Exchange server.