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Student Technology Center



Oakland University

Current population – 18,000+ students

Plans to grow to 25,000 students by 2010

Medical school

Doctoral Research-Intensive University

90% commuter, 10 % residential

Division I athletics - 1998

Located in Rochester, MI



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Why a Student Technology Center??

Students were proficient with Facebook, but

were they proficient in technology?

Division of Student Affairs – A support service for everything, right???

How could we help students gain the

skills for classes & the workforce?



Vision for a Student Technology Center??

BGSU presentation at Educause

Technology Academic Skills Center

BGSU collaboration



Opening the STC

Proposal co-written with Asst. VP

of Student Affairs

Started the planning after Educause – March 2005

The Big Three:

#1 Space

#2 Funding – Michigan Economy

#3 If we build it, will they come??



Walk-inOne-on-one/Groups

By appointment

Mentoring



1,000

2,200

3,200

3,900

0

5001,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,0003,500

4,000

4,500

Original

Projections

2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008

Projection

Mentoring Sessions



4,500

43,000

53,000

71,000

0

10,00020,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

Original

Projections

2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008

Projection

Student Visits



Digital Cameras

Digital CamcordersTablet PC’s

Equipment Loans



400

1,100 1,300

1,340

0

200400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600

Original

Projections

2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008

Projection

Equipment Loans



Emerging Technologies

Faculty collaborationsDepartmental collaborations

Beg/Inter/Advanced Workshops

Workshops



Available Equipment:

32 PC’s

8 iMacs20+ software titles

Color Laser Printers, Scanners

and 3 Plasma TV’s

Separate room with a classroommanagement system



Microsoft Office 2007

Dreamweaver CS3

Windows XP

Fireworks CS3

Flash CS3

Photoshop Elements

Premier Elements

Mac OS X Tiger

iMovie

Garage Band

iDVD

iWebiPhoto

Google Docs

Second Life

iGoogle

Wiki's

Picassa

YouTube

Internet Apps / Web 2.0

ePortfolio

SAIL

Moodle

OU Personal Web Space

OU Portal

OakShare

OU Websites

PC - Supported Software Apple - Supported Software



Keeping students on campus

Student collaborationsGroup Projects

Student Organizations



StudentsMBA group developed strategic marketing planOnline marketing

Social networkingEmail CampaignsSurveys

FacultyPersonalized letterSyllabus insertBrochures/FlyersEmail Campaigns



Staffing the STC

Training

Started with Director & 6 student employees

Has grown to Director, 10 student employees & 2 co-op professionals

What majors we hire

Hiring philosophy



Staff at the STC

Real World Experience

How do we keep students until graduation?



Financial Implications

Initial Funding

Annual Funding

Operational

Hardware/Software



Future of the STC

Return on Investment (ROI) project

Sustainable funding source

Technology & Leadership

Grants

Growth



Questions?

www.oakland.edu/stc

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