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On Tue, 1 Mar 1994 08:13:48 -0500 Jim Pinkerton said:
>Heres a question for all the college sites out there.  Do you charge any sort
>of annual computer fees to your students?  The kind of fee I am talking about
>is a sort of a campus wide computing fee to support the student labs.  If you
>do have such a fee, how much is it, how large of a school are you (how many
>students), how many computers do you have (in labs and otherwise), and are you
>a public or private instutition?  Thanx in advance for your time and help.
>
>Jim Pinkerton, Research Assistant and "survey guy", Computing Services
>Castleton State College, Castleton  VT

I am with computing services here at the University of Missouri
(public land grant), but not directly with the Academic Support folks.
There is a student fee, somwhere around 2-5 dollars per credit hour
for all students (at least undergraduates).  There might be a larger
one for selected computer courses, but I am not sure.  Something like
20,000 undergraduate students.  The fee is used to support some
mainframe CMS; creating, maintaining, supporting hand-on workstation
computer labs (Macs and IBMs); Helpdesk/user support functions, etc.

Major expansion of available labs for students has occurred because of
the fee.  I believe I heard at a recent ribbon ceremony for a new lab
in the student union that they have 800-900 workstations now publicly
available for students with plans to get to 1200.  Some of the
dormitories have access with plans for others.  I believe a long term
desire is to wire individual rooms in University owned dorms.  Also
think I heard something about working with the Greek system to wire
some of the on campus houses.

If you don't get a more definitive reply from the University of
Missouri, and would like more details, I can probably pass the request
on to someone with direct knowledge of the details.  I do know that it
took quite a bit of campus politicing for a number of years to get the
fee instituted.

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