ABILENE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–An Apple iPhone or iPod touch will become a central part of Abilene Christian University’s innovative learning experience this fall when all freshmen are provided one of these converged media devices, said Phil Schubert, ACU executive vice president.
At ACU – the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class – freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances – among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.
I think I got a T-shirt when I was a freshman at ACU.
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons
Well, I would be ahead of the curve!!!
I am thinking of getting a doctorate just so I can get an iphone.
Not sure they can officially qualify as “the first” as Business Wire is claiming…
Oklahoma Christian (of which I am an alum) is doing the same thing, plus a MacBook, starting in the Fall as an extension of their 1-to-1 computing initiative they started back in 2001.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/02/university-jumps-on-even-bigger-bandwagon-free-iphones-and-macb/
http://www.oc.edu/apple/
They probably teamed up in some aspects…
I didn’t even get a damn t-shirt when I arrived at Harding 25 years ago!
Yeah I’m really made about OC. I’ve been here for 4 years and I have to keep my dumb dell. Oh well.
haha! sucker! if i go… i totally get a beautiful mac book and iphone! so i guess that being young ins’t always a setback…!!!
How many Mac users out there anyway?
All I got is a stinky roommate! 🙂
When I went to Harding, I got one stinky roommate and one pretty good roommate in a room made for two, total.
iPhones for students … but fewer instructors. What bad timing: http://media.www.acuoptimist.com/media/storage/paper891/news/2008/02/22/News/Budget.Shortfalls.Force.Job.Cuts-3229039.shtml.
Ouch.
I got the world’s ugliest T-Shirt my freshman year at ACU…
The joke was…
How many ACU students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
5.
1 to hold the ladder
1 screw in the lightbulb
1 to pray about it
1 to write a column about it in the Optimist
and
1 to make the t-shirt
All I got when I went to Freed was a two hour lecture on hair length, the sin of wearing shorts, the evils of dancing, and a list of rules long enough to choke a wombat.
Do you know if they give them to professors as well?
thoughts after reading number 5
Jeff, are you sure you didn’t mean darn T-Shirt?
I visited Harding campus forty five years ago….and that sort of language just was not allowed ! !
Have things changed that Much?
Yeah, I would put a smiley face on all this, but i can just barely type on a computer.
Auntie Jay