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5/27/2005
More recently, according to Vincent Gorman, the school’s executive VP for Administration, Operations and IT Services (and a Collegis employee), the partnership’s academic components have become more prominent. First, each fulltime faculty member is now equipped with a desktop computer and asked to maintain a Web page. Second, the school has launched a new distance learning facility in nearby Wall, NJ, complete with three computer labs and 10 classrooms. Finally, the partnership even has had an impact on enrollment: Whereas previously, only one in four local collegebound graduates decided to enroll, Gorman says that today, that figure is one in three, and it’s rising steadily—strong evidence of the competitive edge an improved IT picture has given the school, and proof positive that when it comes to IT improvement on campus, two heads are often, in fact, better than one.
Matt Villano is senior contributing editor of this publication.
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