As UNCG is a Doctoral I university with approximately 13,000 students, information technology must meet a wide variety of instructional, research, student service, and administrative needs. UNCG was an early leader in building a campus-wide network but important parts of it were old and needed replacement by the late 1990s. Despite earlier underfunding that affected information technology, UNCG has made considerable progress over the past several years in developing its IT systems. Instructional Labs UNCG provides over 600 seats in 24 labs that are combination open-use and teaching labs.
Most labs are available for scheduling for classes.
All such labs are equipped with teaching podia and overhead projection systems. At other times, the labs are available for open-use by students from any department in the University. In general, the software environment in each lab is identical to every other lab. The SuperLab relieves pressure on our distributed labs and may be used only for open-use student computing. The Computer Science program maintains its own scientific workstation lab and makes use of the public access workstations also available to the campus.