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Student Life
3) Does the campus provide and support electronic space for personal student Web pages?
4) Is contact information for students, faculty, and staff readily accessible electronically?
5) What social activities and services are available online?
6) Are there Web sites for student organizations and clubs?
7) Does the campus make available online discussion forums or bulletin boards for un-moderated use?
8) What technology-supported career-planning services are available to students?
1) What public access for computing is available to students? Examples include computing labs, cyber cafés, residence hall computers, and wireless access?
All students registered at New Mexico State University are allowed access to all computer labs within the university supported by the ICT department. A 24x7 lab is available during the main semester and most of the other labs have extended hours. Hours of operation for all of the computer labs are posted at ICT website . Most computer labs at New Mexico State University have laptop docking stations. Wireless zones are located throughout campus for student convenience. More information on the locations of the various wireless access locations is available at http://ict.nmsu.edu/wireless/ . The residence halls are equipped with high speed Internet access as well.
2) Does the campus provide institutional e-mail accounts for all students and use e-mail as an official medium of communication?
Yes, New Mexico State University provides institutional email accounts for all students. When a student registers at the university for the first time, an email account is available for the student to activate. This is done at http://aams.nmsu.edu/account/index.html after a student is admitted to the university.
3) Does the campus provide and support electronic space for personal student Web pages?
Yes, New Mexico State University students are allowed to post their own web pages online, by going to http://aams.nmsu.edu/web/ , you will see all the web pages that New Mexico State University student have done with their own web pages.
4) Is contact information for students, faculty, and staff readily accessible electronically?
Yes, All New Mexico State University students, faculty, staff, even departments are located at NMSU phonebook to help all New Mexico State University students, faculty, staff, and departments get easier contact with each other.
5) What social activities and services are available online?
NMSU has many student activities and areas to be involved. Many of the interest areas have information available online at http://www.nmsu.edu/campuslife.html and http://www.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Cal4/Calendar/calendar.cgi . More services and activities will be online with the introduction of the SCT Luminis portal in 2005.
6) Are there Web sites for student organizations and clubs?
Yes, New Mexico State University provides each organization and club with an opportunity to post their websites online. There is a list of links to these websites located at: www.nmsu.edu/Campus_Life/Student_Orgs
7) Does the campus make available online discussion forums or bulletin boards for un-moderated use?
NMSU allows the use of un-moderated email lists for students. Many instructors also provide a "social" discussion area within their courses.
8) What technology-supported career-planning services are available to students?
NMSU offers students online career planning tools including MonsterTrac, AggieTrac, and online listings for a variety of career fairs. There is a list of these tools at http://www.nmsu.edu/~pment/pcsmainmenu.html . Additionally, students can look for employment while they are in school through an online student employment system available at the same site.
The questions are based on a publication from EDUCAUSE (an international, nonprofit association promoting the use of technologies within higher education).