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| Office of the President > State of the University 2000 | |
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A Future We Would
Welcome - How We Measure Up |
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| VI. | Integrate computing technology for education and scholarship | Recommendation VI | |
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have already commented on our new College of Medicine, but this year we
added another very important academic unit, the School of Computational
Science and Information Technology, integrating its activities across disciplines
throughout the campus. |
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| FSU
continues to make great strides to enhance its computing technology for
education and scholarship. The Office of Research joined with other universities
in assuring that Internet II would become a reality. Other examples of such
enhancements include expanding our bandwidth capacity campus-wide and obtaining
a new "state of the art" supercomputer that is the most powerful
supercomputer owned by any single university. |
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library services have expanded with numerous
online search engines. As residence halls are renovated, we are providing
data ports for every student. Standard classrooms now feature technology
enhancements to make learning more engaging. |
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number of open-access computers has grown from 111 to 629. The number of
computers in specialty laboratories has increased, too. In the past five
years, we’ve gone from just under 500 to over 1800 computers in labs like
the meteorology department’s with specialized weather tracking technology,
geography with geographic information systems, and the Film School, with
its equipment to edit film in digital form. |
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| We
are, as you’re aware, taking a lead in distance
learning. We are now offering distance degree programs in nine areas,
and there is extensive planning toward new offerings, graduate and undergraduate. |
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| As
of this fall, 675 students are enrolled in 37 distance learning classes.
That’s up from 370 students in 11 classes last fall--a huge increase. If
the students enrolled in distance learning were all in a separate college,
that college would be larger than three of our existing colleges and, if
these programs continue to grow, you can see that they will be significant
to FSU. |
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| I
hope you appreciate the importance of the pioneering work being done by
Dr. Alan Mabe and his team. I truly believe that FSU has developed the infrastructure
and the culture that will allow us to provide access to large numbers of
students without compromise of our academic standards and without placing
distance learning entirely apart from our faculty. |
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| Let
me tell you about just one of those students--Jane
Barrager. Jane was a single mother of a 2-year-old son who wanted to
continue her education but just couldn’t leave home to do it. Through our
distance learning program, Jane earned her BS degree in Information Studies
and went on to get her MS. Her dream was to teach at the college level--and
that’s exactly what she’s doing now. Jane says that she would never have
been able to get this far without FSU distance learning degree. By the way,
Jane has also served as a mentor for the 2+2 program. |
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| In
addition to off-campus distance education, more and more on-campus classes
are web assisted. About 1700 sections are registered to use web-assisted
classes in academic year 2000. |
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| This
summer over 80 faculty members received individualized instruction in courseware
development, bringing to over 200 who have completed the course and who
are helping their fellow faculty members develop web-assisted classes. |
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| We
also have made great strides in using computers for a wide variety of student
services. |
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| All
our computing power has been recognized. For the second year in a row, Yahoo!
Internet Life has ranked us number one in the state of Florida. This
year we’re ranked 18th in the nation. |
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| Next,
our Commissions urged us to: |
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| Recommendation VII | back to V | ||
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