Council members believe funds should be found for this program. It would not only help the students, but would help the university - more work could be completed in offices, and, more importantly, more office staff would have an opportunity to meet and work with these students. Council members expressed support for more staff to support our web pages. Each year, more prospective students, current students, parents, alumni and others spend more time using the web. The web is becoming more and more of a key marketing and public relations tool.
Staff is needed to maintain, continuously update and improve our web pages.
With an ever increasing schedule of distance education courses, more staff support is needed to meet this changing technology. Council members expressed support funds for a position to help curb the increase in demand for distance education services. Council members support funding to purchase an updated student information system. Some council members expressed support of purchasing equipment, rather than renting to save money. Other members, however, noted that renting may be the way to go if the equipment is fast-changing and will need frequent updates.