UCLA boasts nearly 35,000 undergraduate and graduate students who attend more than 2,000 courses a year in the university's 81 academic departments and 30 interdepartmental programs.
University students do far more than sit in classrooms and sleep in residence halls.
Brick and mortar are expensive. We saw the Web as a way to serve both our campus and alumni communities that would get us out into the world inexpensively. And considering that UCLA was the site of the first Internet connection, added to the high percentage of Web literacy on college campuses, we felt as if our constituency really demanded that we establish a strong Web presence. Soon, the UCLA Graduation Store and Computer Store will be automated on the Web, too. We felt there was a better match for us with the Microsoft environment and that it would serve us better in the future.