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Sunday, January 27, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=5933 Train Student Technologists--and Get Tech Support The ever-growing demand for technology services on college campuses has strained budgets to the breaking point. Limited resources collide with increasing student enrollments. Busy information technology staff members struggle to address the needs of tech-savvy faculty clamoring for tools and training. Trained technology specialists are hard to find and expensive to hire. One solution that some campuses have used: Hire students to supplement the IT staff. At the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, they’ve taken this one step further, developing a department composed solely of student employees and student managers. The department, Student Technology Services, received an Educause Exemplary Practices Award in 2001....
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