These lists are used for facilitation of class discussion, announcements and reminders. The School also has a general list which promotes intellectual and social discussion amongst the students. Topics of discussion range from copy right issues, intellectual property and censorship issues to looking for roommates, childcare facilities and social arrangements. Information from this list is archived on the University's main computer and is also set up as a newsreader. There are several ways to established to access the information, all gaps are filled.
Students find the information available in several formats.
Initially, students in our program were unable to sign up for University of Arizona email accounts. As paying students in our program, this is something they were entitled to have. Information students needed to access was unavailable to them, unless the account from which the request came was a University of Arizona domain. Initially, none of the distance students were able to access information from the library, a tragedy for our program. To rectify this, the School sent lists of names and social security numbers for all our off campus students to a particular office and the accounts were added manually.