New tuition-relief program
for K-State spouses and dependents
by the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
published July 19, 2005
Beginning this fall semester, a tuition-relief program is available for spouses and dependent
children of K-State full-time employees. The university has
set aside $400,000 in private funding, and each applicant may receive up to three
credit hours of tuition per semester.
Funds will be awarded on a "first come-first served" basis until budgeted resources are exhausted.
The tuition-relief program applies only to
courses taken on the Manhattan and Salina campuses, and does not apply to courses offered
through the Division of Continuing Education.
For more details, see the July 15 press release
from Media Relations and Marketing.
The application form and eligibility criteria
are available at the Student Financial Assistance office in Fairchild Hall and on the Web at
www.ksu.edu/sfa/spousedepgrant.
Labs and InfoCommons upgrade
includes 58 new computers
by the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
published July 19, 2005
From July 18 through Aug. 4, new Gateway computers are being installed to upgrade the following computer facilities
on the K-State campus:
- 21 desktop PCs in K-State InfoCommons (Hale Library)
- 5 desktop PCs in K-State InfoCommons (Weigel Library)
- 22 desktop PCs in the K-State Student Union
- 10 laptops for checkout at the IT Help Desk
In addition, 8 new LCD monitors have been installed to upgrade existing monitors in the Hale 24-hour study area.
All these computers will include Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2)
with all the current security updates, patches, and drivers. More information about these upgrades
will be posted soon in InfoTech Tuesday.
About those K-State IT projects (Part 3)
by B. Edwards, Computing and Network Services
published July 19, 2005
K-State's list of summer IT projects
is being covered in detail in this multi-part series.
- Release of Axio Learning, the commercial version of K-State Online.
Axio Learning is also the name of
the not-for-profit consortium of educational institutions aimed at developing and delivering community
source applications that support mediated education. The first Axio product was released in July and provides a
fully functional Learning Management System (LMS) for members. It is designed to
handle course-management needs of all members -- from a large university to a relatively small technical college.
The Axio LMS is based on K-State Online and was created to meet requests from other institutions and groups for
their own version of K-State Online that they could brand and control.
- K-State Online version 5.5 will be released Aug. 6.
K-State Online was started in 1997 and is "a course management system designed to deliver
an interactive web-based classroom to students". The website is online.ksu.edu.
More about the upgrade to version 5.5 will be in next week's issue of InfoTech Tuesday.
- Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports (ETDRs).
"Over the next two years, K-State will be phasing in a system through which graduate students will
submit electronic, rather than paper, versions of their theses, dissertations, and reports. Beginning fall 2006,
doctoral students will be required to submit dissertations electronically. In fall 2007, masters students will
be required to submit electronic versions of theses and reports."
K-State online engineering graduate degree
rated "best buy"
by D. Larson, Division of Continuing Education
published July 19, 2005
GetEducated.com recently completed its biannual survey of accredited distance-learning master's degrees
in engineering, and K-State's program has been chosen as a "best buy". Of the 56 programs in the survey,
K-State's program was ranked No. 16 on the
Top 25 Best Buys in Online Graduate Degrees in Engineering.
The "best buy" designation denotes
high quality, accredited, distance degrees at tuition well below the national average.
K-State offers six different engineering master's degrees through distance education, including
chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, engineering management,
mechanical engineering, and software engineering.
GetEducated.com is a renowned site, and was called "the source for weeding out phony online degrees"
by Newsweek earlier this year.
For more information on K-State's distance master's degrees in engineering, visit
www.dce.ksu.edu/engineering.
University Handbook now in PDF format
by the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
published July 19, 2005
K-State's University Handbook (sometimes referred to as the Faculty Handbook)
is now available in PDF format through the Academic Services website. See the
University Handbook webpage for a link to the PDF version.
| Q/A: IT questions from K-Staters |
by the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
published July 19, 2005
How can I check for broken links on my website?
Many web authors use the validator.w3.org site to
check their webpages and HTML code for errors. This service is free and provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Have a question or comment?
TellTuesday@ksu.edu.
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"Harry Potter" news and websites
by the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
published July 19, 2005
With the release of J. K. Rowling's sixth "Harry Potter" book on Saturday, July 16,
readers around the world have embarked on a new frenzy of book purchasing.
Amazon.com reportedly had more than a million pre-orders of the 672-page book,
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", and ranks it #1 in book sales.
See the International Herald Tribune's July 16 article:
Fans around the world swoop on new "Harry Potter" volume.
Harry Potter websites:
Find a good site? TellTuesday@ksu.edu.
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