The Lurie Engineering Center Building provides new space for administrative offices and student services, as well as academic space for Industrial and Operations Engineering. The University of Michigan continues to build a high level of digital and video networking. In research laboratories, libraries, dormitories, administrative and faculty offices, computing centers, and public areas throughout the campus, the University is equipped with over 40,000 networked computers. Video conference sites and production facilities link the campus as well. The electronic environment has changed the way the University works.
Many classes now integrate the Internet as a medium of instruction and communication.
Research institutes, centers, and programs maintain websites for distributing work and sharing information. As well, in 1994 the University moved to a distributed computing environment. Students and faculty, as well as academic and administrative units, were provided with wider access to operational and administrative data. In a major effort to rethink and reorganize its business processes, the University also embarked on the M-Pathways project to improve data management processes through the PeopleSoft applications environment, including student, financial, and human resources data systems. The University of Michigan is proud of the diversity of its faculty, students, and staff.