/donna anderson
> To all visionaries emailing from the U of I;
> While you faculty members are busy emailing Vision 2020 today, you might
> be interested in what many of your students are doing.......or not doing.
>
> Many of them are presently sitting in front of frozen computer terminals,
> waiting 45 minutes to even enter their user I.D.; this is about 15
> minutes longer than they waited yesterday.
> Once they get the prompt, it is another 10 minutes to the password
> prompt; then another waiting period to enter the chosen program.
> Yesterday, this NTD (non- traditional student) waited over an hour;
> today
> I waited over an hour and finally left. I'm willing to spend hours
> finding a problem in a computer program, but not hours sitting in front of
> a blank terminal.
> While we observe that Moscow is indeed built upon an educational
> 'industry', how many students are deciding to transfer elsewhere next
> year?? That thought certainly crossed my mind this morning.
> One can only wonder about the 'innovative' decision to double class sizes
> in coming years.....
> As I looked at the hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of equipment
> virtually unusable today, I wondered.......why.
> Since the faculty computers appear to be working quite well, maybe one of
> you can provide an answer. Jo Williams tajs@potlatch.com
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