The information report service may also provide benefits to students by giving them access to standard reports for appropriate student use. E. Choice of specific computer platforms and software that will be supported. Supporting only a fixed number of platforms would save money, decrease staff effort, and improve the ability of community members to understand and more easily use information technology. Encourage hardware and software purchases consistent with these choices by not guaranteeing TCCS support for other platforms. Continue to provide support and encouragement, financially and otherwise, to faculty and students for educational and research computation.
Support needs to be provided for distributed systems as well as central machines.
Transparent and facilitated access to centralized data bases in areas such as the social sciences should be provided. This support is needed, to ensure that Tufts' faculty and students have adequate research and educational opportunities. V. Create a mix of small and large electronic classrooms with network access, electronic projection facilities, and computers. Faculty members are developing and using such software in specific classes, now, and ETUG was created by faculty to help focus these efforts. These projects will help define requirements for future electronic classrooms, dorm network connections, and dorm computer clusters.