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TOM DEHART news@kansan.com sched begin The Road sched The completion date of the second phase of construction on Jayhawk Boulevard has been rescheduled. The end date was previously Aug.15; however, according to an email sent Aug.13 from the Office of Design and Construction Management, Jayhawk Boulevard is direct comm Univ const that the
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While most students were enjoying the summer months away from school, the KU Information Technology department members were taking part in student orientation to help more than 2,700 students configure their smartphones and other mobile devices to connect to Javihawk Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi is one of the major components of academic success and students' connection can make or break an assignment or project.
David Day, director of IT External Affairs at the University, said while questions have been raised about the speed of Wi-Fi connections on campus, only a small percentage of the daily calls they receive deal with Wi-Fi at all. Field Hall depa and to in "W was area out
"Quite frankly we haven't
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Updates in the last two years:
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2. Kansas Union
In the future:
3. Outdoor area behind Wescoe Hall
4. Spencer Research Library
5. Corridor between Anschutz Library and the Military Sciences building
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said it's something they will have to deal with during the first month of school.
"I think they'll be annoyed by it, but it's not something they can't just handle or take care of." Patel said. "You've just got to show up earlier."
AMY ROSSOMONDO Associate professor of Spanish
the program.
Amy Rossomondo, associate professor of Spanish, said the decision to implement Acceso in course material was an initiative of the Spanish and Portuguese department. She said professors felt commercial materials were lacking in content that was important for students to consider as they were learning Spanish.
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"A lot of students find it to be challenging and different than what they expect, but overall they are more successful both in terms of the grades that they're earning and quality of the language they're acquiring
"We were ending up losing 10 or 15 minutes of class time ... with all of this switching."
Acceso online textbooks move Spanish classes to computer labs
DAVID HURTADO
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Acceso, a web-based platform developed in 2009 to act as an alternative to textbooks, has garnered $500,000 in savings on textbooks since its launch. In the five years since its inception, more than 3,000 intermediate-level Spanish students at the University and hundreds more across the country have benefitted from
A program developed at the University intended to replace learning from traditional textbooks with online content has made changes for the fall semester.
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