Re: Questions in the Field.

["Jo Francis Byrd" <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>]

I have a kid in college; she uses her university account for school-related
"stuff" and a personal yahoo one for everything else. Helps keep it all
separated. I never write her at her university account, but she uses it to
correspond with her advisors (she's in grad school), do research, etc.

Jo Byrd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Valerie Priester" <hammerl -at- buffalo -dot- edu>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Questions in the Field.


 :-) Once upon a time, not so very long ago, all colleges provided email
addresses to their students, and the students used them, and didn't have
eight or nine other non-college email addresses. However, in the world
outside of universities and colleges, students in high school (and middle
school/jr. high school/elementary school, etc.) were fiddling around with
computers, too. Their parents were also using computers, and often they got
accounts from AOL or hotmail. Universities and colleges have learned over
the past several years that it's extremely difficult to wean these students
away from their beloved AOL/hotmail/yahoo/etc. addresses and onto university
ones, even if it means that the students can't access all the university's
resources. This is something that I deal with on a daily basis at work, as I
work at a university. Professors complain that their students don't answer
mail sent to an official university address. The courseware system has them
registered under a different account than the one they're trying to use.
Students want to use library-accessible resources like Lexis-Nexis, and it
doesn't recognize them as being from the university. We now have VPN clients
to fix some of the problems, push mail forwarding and use of the university
account for others, and other various solutions. I have three students who
work for me. When I go to hire a student, probably 75% of the applicants are
using a non-university address, and yet every single applicant has one. In
fact, you might be interested to know that some schools have eliminated
dial-up access to students. This means that a commuter has no
university-sponsored access, and less incentive to use an account from the
university as his ISP is also giving him an account. It doesn't surprise me
at all that a question like this came from a non-university/college account



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