A link with Rutgers University will permit ESL students at both institutions to collaborate on writing assignments. Princeton University is enhancing language instruction by installing two satellite earth stations to receive programming from the Soviet Union and South and Central America. Programming is distributed over TigerNet, the university's broadband cable communications network. Fairleigh Dickinson University is upgrading a local area network with new hardware and software for basic skills writing labs and classes. Glassboro State College, Raritan Valley Community College, and Georgian Court College received grants to develop comprehensive plans for the use of networking and telecommunications on their campuses.
Services are free to participants.
For campuses with well-developed networks, these may include central databases and network servers if the institutions are connected to Internet. Individual accounts will directly serve faculty and staff on campuses with little or no local network activity. Users will be able to send and receive computer mail, exchange files with other network sites, and participate in network news and bulletin boards. Faculty and staff will be able to log on to a SUN workstation which is in operation and immediately available for use. It was sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Higher Education and conducted under the auspices of the Educational Activities Task Force.