Wednesday, June 3, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Dial-in Internet fees increase
Fees will help fund more staff faster services
Tim Burger
Kansan staff writer
Students who use dial-in Internet accounts will pay $5 more this year.
The fee for dial-in accounts has increased to $35 for six months of service. The money brought in by the increase will pay for more lines and more staff to answer questions
from students about their dial-in accounts.
"we wanted to add additional lines," said Jerry Niebaum, assistant vice chancellor for information services and director for Academic Computing Services. "We are finding that with the huge number of students using dial-in that we are getting a lot of questions."
The Computer Center will add 48 additional lines for dial-in users.
Wes Hubert, assistant director of Academic Computing Services, said that the speed of the new lines would depend on how higher speed lines perform at Fort Hayes State University, which added new higher
The improvements in service were needed to keep up with increasing use of dial-in accounts. In the spring semester an average of 6,000 accounts were used each month.
speed lines this year.
Dial-in accounts used about 110,000 hours of service per month, up from 90,000 hours per month last year.
Hubert said that the number of lines has almost kept pace with demand. With the fee increase, he said that Academic Computing Services should be able to better keep up with demand.
"The major concern is to not degrade the service," said Bill Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries.
"The alternative would be to stay the same and thereby fall behind."
The dial-in fee allows students to use the Internet from their home computer. Students can use up to 50 hours each month. Extra hours cost $5 cents each, but the Computer Center does not bill students for use of less than 20 extra hours. The Computer Center will bill students up to $30 per month for extra online hours.
"Our object is to make that pay for the direct cost and that's it," Crowe said. "We want to keep it cost effective so that cost is not a barrier... we don't want to discourage people from using the dial-in accounts. ... It's a touchy economic decision, you don't want to increase the cost, but it isn't free."
Program helps workers balance school, job
By Graham K. Johnson
jgohnson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Managing summer school and a job is a difficult task for many students, but for some employees of local businesses, it will be easier this summer.
The Community Academic Outreach Program, sponsored by Sallie Mae Servicing Corporation, 2000 Bluffs Drive, and the University of Kansas, began in the fall semester of 1997 to provide full-time employees the opportunity to earn college credit
by providing classes at their workplaces. The program announced it also would offer a class this summer.
The program has made it easier for people such as Becky Tweed, records clerk at Sallie Mae, to go back to school while working full time.
"It's great," Tweet said. "It's one night a week, it's basically in the same building that you work in and that's as far as you have to go, so you have time to do other things."
Steve Harris, training and development officer for Sallie Mae, said that Sallie Mae, a company that buys and
services student loans, offered to pro vide the University on-site facilities if it would help employees further their education and careers.
Linda Luckey, assistant to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said it was a Sallie Mae employee who originally proposed the idea to the company.
Luckey said that the program would expand to four courses this fall and would continue indefinitely.
Harris said that the courses were usually held in a company conference room one or two nights per week. Sal
lie Mae offers tuition reimbursement to cover most of the costs to employees for the classes, Harris said.
Courses are open only to full-time employees who are recommended by their employer and meet regular admissions standards. Luckey said.
Lynn Lipsey, program manager with the Division of Continuing Education, said that the program has utilized KU teaching assistants as instructors. Lipsey said that instructors often can sympathize with their students, many of whom balance work and family roles.
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