Kellogg’s robust technology infrastructure enables students to incorporate technology into their coursework and student activities, thereby learning skills that will be critical to success in management.

Kellogg’s computing network is part of Northwestern’s campus-wide link to the Internet. Kellogg students access the Kellogg network with their laptop computers via wired and wireless network connections in the Jacobs Center and the McManus Living Learning Center.

Students are provided with Internet access, an email account, a group calendaring account, a location for a personal Web page, and 100MB of personal server space. After graduation, alumni may continue to use their Kellogg email address as a permanent email forwarding address.

Kellogg’s technology environment includes: Ubiquitous wireless network throughout the Jacobs Center • 1,350 wired network connections throughout student group rooms, lounges, quiet study areas, classrooms and bedrooms • Computer labs in the Jacobs Center and McManus Center, with 24-hour access in each building • Desktop monitors for laptop display in all student group rooms • High-speed networked printers in several areas of each building • Electronic resources from periodicals and quantitative data sources (ABI Inform, Bloomberg, Compustat, Datastream, Factiva, Hoover’s, InvesText, Lexis-Nexis, Thomson ONE Analytics and more).

All Kellogg classrooms are equipped with a laptop connection, VCR, video projector, and sound system for the instructor’s use. In addition, nine Jacobs Center classrooms, comprising more than 600 seats, are fully wired with electric and network connections at every student seat. Kellogg also has Internet-based video-conferencing systems, which are used to bring in virtual guest speakers from around the world.

The distinctive Kellogg laptop program ensures that entering students have a laptop with the hardware, software, and high quality, on-site support necessary to succeed at Kellogg.  TEKcamp is a unique training program which introduces new students to the Kellogg technology environment and helps them to develop their business-application technology skills.  TEKcamp is supplemented by periodic classes during the academic year, led by Kellogg students serving as Peer Technology Trainers.

The Kellogg Web includes a rich array of applications for registered students.  To inform students about people and events at Kellogg, we offer faculty biographies, a searchable student face book, a searchable alumni directory and an all-school events calendar. In the Student Affairs Office, systems include demographics updating, course bidding, course drop/add, teacher-course evaluation results and a course catalog/schedule. In the Career Management Center, systems include searchable company/job information, interview bidding, peer summer internship feedback and job-offer reporting. The Admitted Students Web site includes all information required for new enrolling students, as well as supplementary services, such as participating in discussion groups, joining listserves, setting up Kellogg e-mail forwarding, updating address information and applying for on-campus housing.

Kellogg faculty have course Web pages with a variety of course materials and supplemental resources.  Some faculty course Web pages also include class discussion groups, electronic drop boxes, surveys and videos.  The TeamNet system provides students working in study groups with confidential peer evaluations of their team skills.

Many student clubs and conferences have developed Web sites with information on club goals, members, events, and career development resources. They may design their Web sites to include video clips of special events and student-designed interactive applications. Clubs also use listserves and discussion groups to communicate among members. Student groups focused on technology include the KSA Technology Committees, the High Tech Club, the Digital Frontier Conference, and TechVenture.

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