RU has used the Equipment Trust Fund to construct discipline specific computer laboratories to support teaching and acquisition of the computer knowledge, skills, and abilities required for specific disciplines and majors, including, for example, foreign languages, GIS, computer aided design for art, interior and fashion design.
Internet connection is now available to every student in every residence hall room.
RU has expanded its modem pool so that every student living in off-campus housing and every faculty and staff member can have access to the RU network and to the intemet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To provide instructional resources, Walker Hall has 2 teaching labs equipped with Pentium computers, ceiling mounted projectors, and a lasejet printer. The Center has four PC labs, two of which can be reserved for teaching, a presentation lab, and a Macintosh lab. Services include LaserJet and LaserJet color printing, scanners, Internet access, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, and specific course software. Faculty may request to have specific software installed in the labs.