Morris Brown College To Require Laptop Computers This Fall - Brief Article

Black Issues in Higher Education, August 3, 2000

ATLANTA -- Morris Brown College will require its students to buy laptop computers this fall, offering them at discount prices as part of school financial aid.

School officials say they believe Morris Brown is the first historically Black college in the nation to make laptops available for purchase to all its students, but not the first college to require them.

The school says it bought 2,750 laptops with 500-megahertz processors and six-gigabyte hard drives from Toshiba Corp. to resell to students. The computers will be offered at discount prices determined by students' financial aid packages. They also will be offered to teachers.

Also this fall, students will be required to pay a $250 technology fee each semester.

Morris Brown is 119 years old and has about 2,000 students.