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Monday, April 07, 2003
Companies cut software donations and instead make deals with colleges - FLORENCE OLSEN, the Chronicle
As recently as two years ago, getting companies to donate software for the classroom was easy, says Jean F. Coppola, a grants officer at Pace University. "We could get almost everything just by a simple phone call or e-mail." As a college that turns out several hundred teachers every year, Pace has depended each fall on receiving free copies of Microsoft's latest educational software, "so that the new teachers coming out would be familiar with the new titles," says Sandra G. Flank, a professor of education. But Ms. Flank doesn't bother to ask Microsoft for donated software anymore.
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