According to Ainlay, I.T. is growing so quickly that it needs more space. Internet Life Magazine ranked Holy Cross among the top 50 most wired Catholic colleges in the country. The importance of this honor has not been lost on school administrators. Computers play a big part in the school, Ainlay says. All residence halls have one port per pillow.
Every student has access to hard drives and servers to store their data.
What can be accessed from your residence hall room is incredible, says Ainlay. He reports that many classes have now moved to electronic syllabi and notes that students can obtain background information on a course before they ever set foot in the classroom. The decision to undertake a new building project came after careful examination of current and future needs of the College and a study of the options for dealing with potential growth issues. A need for space drove the development of the project, says Ainlay. There is hardly a building on campus that can be added to.