Most Wired Campuses - Brief Article

Black Issues in Higher Education, March 15, 2001

Yahoo's Most Wired Colleges and Universities (2000)

Top 20 Most Wired Colleges:

1. Williams College

2. Colgate University

3. Bates College

4. Occidental College

5. Oberlin College

6. Sweet Briar College

7. Albion College

8. Illinois Wesleyan University

9. Smith College

10. Trinity College

11. Wellesley College

12. College of Saint Benedict at Saint John's University

13. Wheaton College

14. Gettysburg College

15. Swarthmore College

16. Wesleyan University

17. Randolph-Macon Woman's College

18. Bucknell University

19. Mount Holyoke College

20. Colby College

Top 20 Most Wired Universities:

1. Carnegie Mellon University

2. University of Delaware

3. New Jersey Institute of Technology

4. Indiana University, Bloomington

5. Dartmouth University

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

7. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

8. University of Virginia

9. Washington State University

10. University of California, Los Angeles

11. SUNY at Buffalo

12. Penn State, University Park Campus

13. University of Idaho

14. Rochester Institute of Technology

15. Georgia Institute of Technology

16. Drexel University

17. Ball State University

18. Florida State University

19. Wake Forest University

20. Iowa State University of Science/ Technology

Three HBCUs made the Top 100 "Most Wired" lists for the first time in 2000.

* Tennessee State University (#55)

* Hampton University, Va. (#72)

* Morehouse College, Ga.(#61)

SOURCE: ZDNET: COLLEGE GUIDE: AMERICA'S MOST WIRED COLLEGES, 2000

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

A Profile of Yahoo's No. 1 Most Wired University in 2000

Carnegie Mellon is a national research university:

* Total student body population: 7,500

* Faculty, research and administrative staff 3,000.

* During fall 2000, Carnegie Mellon installed a wireless network on campus.

Challenge for the university:

how to take advantage of technology without giving up what's best about a traditional education -- face-to-face contact between teacher and student.

* 37 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in 2000 at Carnegie Mellon were in computer science or engineering.

* In 1988, it was one of the first universities to build its own campus-wide computer network-called the Andrew System.

* Owning a personal computer is recommended; owning a laptop in the MBA program is required.

* Raj Reddy, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, heads up the Aura project. Reddy and his colleagues envision a new era of "invisible computing," where computers are embedded in the walls of buildings and attached unobtrusively to people's bodies.

SOURCES: BUSINESS WEEK, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY INFORMATION

Yahoo Rankings Judging Criteria

Access & Infrastructure

Recent computer buys
Computer requirement
Wired classrooms
Dorm equipment
Wireless access

Administrative

Electronic application
Online registration
Online drop/add
Online transcripts
Online course schedules

General Resources

Web space per student
  (in megabytes)
Network file space per
  student (in megabytes)
Library/resources
Multiple e-mail accounts
Free printing

Support

Tech support
Internet orientation
Equipment for the
disabled

NB: Yahoo added that "not all the criteria used to determine this year's (2000) Most Wired Colleges appear on this chart." SOURCE: ZDNET: COLLEGE GUIDE: AMERICA'S MOST WIRED COLLEGES 2000 FOR A FULL REPORT, VISIT HTTP://WWW. ZDNET.COM/YIL/CONTENT/COLLEGE/