No campus-wide formal program exists for preparing faculty for the incorporation of computer technology into their classrooms. A lower level, full-time faculty computer trainer flourished through much of 1996, but she became a casualty to budgetary constraints. Some forms of training in internet usage have been provided through the seminary communications office, but nothing systematic. The library, however, regularly provides scheduled training sessions covering database access and including special sessions for deaf students as well as scheduled links with selected seminary courses, such as the Ph.D. seminar in Historiography. Computer-savvy students, as a whole, might outpace faculty in computer skills.
Staff receive within their units necessary computer training suited to job performance.
In short, no comprehensive training program exists. Training and support emerge mainly at the school level, making random use of identified geeks within the staff to solve installation and support problems. Even in such support however, there is wide variation in need. In the School of Theology, Word Processing staff have provided installation and low to mid-level support. The Computing Center technicians, short-staffed, cannot work with individual users but devote their skills to network and system maintenance.