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Herty Field has served as a football field, a parking lot,
and after a 1999 conversion, as a public plaza with a large
green lawn and a cascading fountain. But its most recent function
is one that's invisible - a site for wireless access to the
Internet.
The access at Herty Field is the first segment of a new wireless
network that is being constructed on campus. Called PAWS -
the Personal Wireless/Walkup System - the system will allow
30 to 60 simultaneous users to access their Web browsers,
check e-mail or use any other Internet-enabled application.
This fall, PAWS will expand with new wireless connectivity
on south campus - called COE PAWS - that will accommodate
30 to 40 users at Aderhold Hall, the Ramsey Student Center
and River's Crossing.
PAWS is designed for students, faculty, staff and those with
a valid University of Georgia MyID identification and password.
(UGA faculty, staff and employees who do not have a MyID identification
may acquire one on the web at www.uga.edu/myid.)
Wireless clouds now hang over the Science and Main libraries;
the Law Library and school; the Tate Student Center; Denmark,
Caldwell and Memorial Halls; Graduate Studies; the School
of Environmental Design and part of downtown Athens near the
New Media Institute. The projects have all been sponsored
by PAWS, which is funded by the Student Technology fee and
managed by UGA's Enterprise Information Technology Services.
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Building the New Learning Environment
The new learning environment is a place where the best of
Georgia’s students and their peers from across the nation
and around the world come to challenge themselves academically.
At the University of Georgia, the new learning environment
is taking shape in facilities such as the Student Learning
Center, the 200,000-square-foot electronic library and classroom
facility at the heart of campus, designed to operate around
the clock and to function for the way today’s students
learn, with fully wired study carrels and plenty of group
study rooms, plus a coffee shop. It is taking shape with the
East Campus Village and dining commons, the first residence
halls at UGA in 30 years, located adjacent to the Ramsey Center,
one of America’s best student activity centers.
But more importantly, the new learning environment is an academic
and intellectual community on the campus of the University
of Georgia which hums with the vibrancy of the true college
experience - bright and talented students working with brilliant
faculty formally in the classroom and informally over a cup
of coffee or lounging in the greenspace which stretches from
one end of campus to the other. It is a place which recognizes
that new information technologies are transforming traditional
academic disciplines and embraces those opportunities.
As a residential university, UGA is maximizing the unique
and beautiful physical campus in the manner outlined in the
newly adopted physical master plan to promote the creation
of a true community of scholars. The historic buildings of
North campus - Meigs Hall, Moore College, Demosthenian Hall
- are being renovated, restored to their glory yet functioning
in the 21st century. We are integrating in-class and out-of-class
experiences by placing academic advisors in residence halls,
creating classroom space in both existing and new residence
halls, updating campus computer networks and bringing cultural
experiences into residential areas.
Through the quality of facilities, the caliber of faculty
and the credentials of the student body, the University of
Georgia will continue its rise into the upper echelon of American
public universities.
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