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Technology on Campus

• Information technology is an integral part of the CU-Boulder campus, which has 37,000 e-mail accounts for students, faculty and staff, more than 1,000 Web servers, and more than 22,000 computing devices connected to the campus network.
  
  
• All campus residence halls are equipped with 100-megabit Ethernet connections, providing fast Internet access and enabling students to download large files quickly.
• CU-Boulder has more than 100 technology equipped classrooms with Ethernet jacks and other enhancements such as projectors, smartboards, televisions and videocassette recorders.
  
  
• The campus has 75 Internet kiosks and nearly 60 central computer laboratories, some of which can be located on the Web at itsweb.colorado.edu/campusmap/webmap.html.
  
  
• About 98 percent of all incoming freshmen bring computers to campus. The campus administration strongly recommends that freshmen have their own computers.
  
  
• CU-Boulder students are able to register, view schedules, check grades and pay their campus bills via the Web. The Personal Look-Up System (PLUS) allows students to perform many administrative tasks on line. The Web site is: plus.colorado.edu/.
  
  
• More than 10,000 CU-Boulder students are enrolled in at least one course where class work and materials, including quizzes and homework assignments, are available on the Internet using the campus' online learning management system.
  
  
• Seventy percent of faculty members have at least one course featuring a Web site. Most sites include syllabi, exercises and problem sets. Many also have online tests and quizzes as well as extensive course materials.
  
  
• The Technology, Arts and Media certificate program provides instruction in graphic and conceptual design, media and societal analysis and specific computer programming, graphic interface and digital recording skills. Launched in January 2000, the program has drawn nearly 250 students, more than 65 percent of whom are women.
  
  
• The Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society, or ATLAS, is a campuswide program aimed at integrating information technology with all disciplines, people and communities. A key component of ATLAS is the creation and delivery of technology centered, multidisciplinary curricular programs that are available to any CU-Boulder undergraduate student.
  
  
• The Multidisciplinary Applied Technologies certificate program, also available to any CU-Boulder undergraduate student, provides an orientation to telecommunications, information systems and programming.