As a result, U.C.L.A. has operated at its capacity, about 23,000 undergraduates and 11,400 graduate students, while the number of faculty members has shrunk by about 10 per cent in that same period. The state-budget picture appears to have stabilized and, in fact, should improve over the next few years. But U.C.L.A. will have to finance much of its planned technological improvement through relationships with major companies like Silicon Graphics Inc., which donated a number of sophisticated computer workstations. Accomplishing all of the administration's goals will require extensive modifications to the campus computer network and the addition of more computers, however. Computer connectivity on the campus varies widely, according to Roberto Peccei, dean of physical sciences and a physics professor.
Students express support for the plan to invest in the technology.
And now that I think about it, I don't really have too many friends who are chem majors who I met through classes. But I guess I won't know how useful this kind of thing would be until it's really here. A freshman, Chris Cho, says he loves virtual office hours, which let students get assignments and talk to instructors via computer. Faculty members also express enthusiasm for the university's commitment to greater access to information technologies. He has been a critic of many administration policies, but not this one.