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Support for Teaching and Learning

As a school that focuses on preparing MBAs for the networked economy, The Paul Merage School of Business is advanced in its efforts to integrate technology into the daily lives of faculty, students and staff. This has long been a high priority at this school, which offers an impressive array of computing tools, support and services to assist with teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom.

The business school was among the first to wire every seat in its classrooms with high-speed network connections. Today, hundreds of network connections are spread throughout every public room, most open seven days a week and late into the evening. The school also has an extensive high-speed wireless network.

School Computing Goals

• To use IT to help deliver our products (instruction, research, prepared graduates).
• To incorporate information and technology in courses that give students experience with what they will encounter in business.
• To keep abreast of new technologies and be agile in adopting them.
• To build and maintain an excellent infrastructure that is reliable and robust.
• To help our clients (students, faculty and staff) use technology effectively in their work, in ways that make their work more fun.
• In all other ways, to aggressively support the goals and mission of the school using current and future technology.

Laptops

The school was the second business school in the United States to issue laptop computers to every student in an MBA program. Currently, every entering student receives a new laptop loaded with a suite of software used throughout the program. In our executive degree programs, the cost of the laptop is included in tuition. In our full-time program, we provide a substantial tuition rebate to help students buy the school's customized laptop. Information regarding recommended laptops can be viewed by admitted students only, at the Admitted Students Website.

MBA Support Center

We have one of the highest computing staff-to-student ratios of any business school in the country. Reliable and professional computing support is essential to a successful laptop program. We operate an MBA Support Center staffed by five full-time computing professionals supplemented by part-time staff, including MBA students. The center is open six days a week and evenings. In addition to professional staff, the support center contains a high-resolution color printer, scanners, and other equipment for MBA student use. Our MBA Computing Support Desk can be reached at (949) 824-4567.

Software

The school provides a complete copy of Microsoft Office to every MBA student at no cost via the school's MS Campus Agreement. This license includes the right to install the most current versions of Microsoft software, including MS Office Professional, FrontPage, Outlook and others.

Training

All incoming students receive a CD-ROM of computer-based training for the most common applications used at the school. Training continues via a "boot camp" during orientation, which includes personalizing your laptop, connecting to the network, building a web site and using the e-Library.

Computing Seminars

The school offers students software training, using professional training companies and the school's own very knowledgeable staff. This complements a library of more than 300 computer-based training courses.

Email and Personal Web Space

Every student is given a full Microsoft Exchange e-mail account, including a personal calendar, task list, group folders and contacts. Exchange makes it easy for students to do the teamwork that is so much a part of student life here. The school also provides every student with personal web space.