U. of Virginia Plans to Phase Out Public Computer Labs

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on March 29, 2009 2:33 PM | No Comments | Link to here ∴
The University of Virginia has begun a three-year process of shutting down all of its public computer labs as part of an effort to cut costs.

In an explanation published on the university's Web site, information-technology officials say that students' changing habits have rendered the public labs obsolete. A survey conducted last fall revealed that 99 percent of new students brought their own laptops to the campus. And while the labs are still heavily used (students spent 651,900 hours in the labs last year), internal data indicated that 95 percent of the time those students used the lab computers to surf the Web and read and compose text documents--tasks that officials say they could easily do on their own computers. -- Chronicle

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