"Indiana State University will become the first public university in the state to require all undergraduate students to have
notebook computers, beginning with incoming freshmen in fall 2007. ISU provost Jack Maynard said the decision rested on the need to prepare students for a ‘world increasingly defined by technology, globalization, and communication’ and a desire to attract high-achieving students.
While it is not possible to project prices into the future, university officials hope to see laptop computers available for around $1,000 or less by the time the requirement takes affect. Maynard said the program makes Indiana State part of an national agenda to promote ‘one-to-one’ computing in education, which envisions the creation of learning environments in which every student is assured continuous and pervasive access to unprecedented tools and information resources."
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