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7/27/2019 Students as "Angel Investors": Technology-Fee Projects Drive Campus IT Innovation (162320262)

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28,000 students

1,600 international students

5,000 graduate students.

8,000 on-campus residents

substantial commuter population

4 schools & 9 senior colleges

1,200 full-time faculty

5,000 staff

$144.7 million annually in outside

research grants and contracts, asignificant factor for the Louisiana

economy.

LSU is a land-grant, sea-grant and space-

grant institution, one of only 21 such

universities in the nation



Students?



Session Overview

Introduction to Louisiana State UniversityStudent Technology Fee as Foundation Outsourcing E-mail & Web-hosting

Microsoft Select & Tigerware Distribution Server Going Wireless

Gear-to-Geaux & Information Kiosks

21st

Century Information CommonsVLAB

GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



Who or What Exactly is an

Angel Investor?



1997:

LSU’s webportal won theEducause Exemplary

Practices Award



Presentation Overview




21st


GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A







21st


GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



Going Wireless

In 2003 Tech Fee funded the

installation of 200 wireless access

points in high traffic areas.

In 2004 Tech Fee funded an

additional 200 access points to provide more ubiquitous

coverage.

Tech Fee pays the annual node

charges of $86,400 for these

access points.

Currently LSU has over 1500

access points.







21st


GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



Gear to Geaux History

The program was started in 2003

The initial program only had 12 laptops and 50 wireless cards.

The items were circulated by ITS and students could only use the laptops for twohours and could not leave the library.

In 2005 we partnered with the library to have them circulate the items and theycould collect and keep the fines revenue.

In Fall of 2005 we added 10 additional laptops and changed the circulation toallow students to check them out for up to three days with one renewal.

In January 2006 we acquired 50 IBM laptops from those donated in support of hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. ITS decided to put these machines into thelibrary circulation program. This was a big hit.

In the Fall of 2006 we replaced the twelve additional machines, but with 6windows compatible machines and 6 ibooks. We also added digital cameras andcamcorders.

In the Fall of 2007 we added 6 additional ibooks and 6 new windows machines.

The program continues to be nearly 100 percent checked out on any given day.



IT Circulation ItemsLaptops (win & mac)

Digital Cameras

Digital Camcorders Tripods

Adaptive Technology – Laptops

– Large format keyboards

– Scroll ball mice

– Opal magnifiers

Gear to Geaux



Internet Kiosks

3 year old computers are used

as low-end, internet stations.

42 machines located in 15

high traffic areas on campus.

Provides students, faculty or

staff quick access to the

internet.

Most require a logon,

however we have 12

machines in the Information

Commons that are open

access.





Tigerware Software Distribution Server Going Wireless


21st


GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



21st Century Information

Commons at LSU

A collaborative environment where library and IT

resources blend …

where people meet and collaborate …

in a first-class showcase of IT tools and student products.







21st


GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



Virtual Lab

Concept piloted in 2005 with aninitial investment of $150,00.

Great Success.

Access to all students in 2006 with

very little marketing.

Added additional terminal serversto the backend in 2007.

It provides students thin client

access to high-end software not

available for download from

TigerWare. Software may be used from any

Web browser.

Students able to save files to their

local drives, shared drives, and

print to their local printer.

http://vlab.lsu.edu/







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GROK Knowledge Base

Conclusions / Q & A



•Create a student technology advisory group

•Include students in existing campus technology advisory

groups

•Include student leaders in strategic IT planning

•Consider using students as beta testers for projects

•Cultivate relationships with student media

•Hire a student liaison for your IT staff

•Leverage residential IT living-learning colleges as advisors

•Cult ivate a cu l ture of investment in

innovat ion

Take-Away Ideas



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