Reserved class times for labs are posted each week, allowing students to plan their weekly schedule.
Labs are open 7:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. on Monday through Thursday and fewer hours Friday through
Sunday during the winter and summer. All labs are closed for official school holidays and for
required chapel sessions. Call 661-5400 to find out if the labs will be available at a certain time.
Policies regarding use of the labs
Computer labs are available exclusively to current Union students, faculty, and staff at no charge.
All labs are scheduled for classes on a day-to-day or entire-semester basis. Class reservations for the following week are posted near all lab doors and in labs on Friday afternoon so that you may plan your work schedule around these times. It is university policy that only students registered for the class meeting in the lab are allowed to use the equipment in the reserved lab.
Student lab assistants are available at the HelpDesk and in BAC-45 during open lab hours for help with common problems. They can't do your work for you, but they will do their best to solve problems with the hardware or software.
Students are expected to use their discretion in selecting sites to access on the Internet, avoiding sites that might be considered objectionable by others.
No food or drink is allowed in the labs.
A general computer usage policy statement is included in the university's student handbook.
Approximately 220 microcomputers are located on the Jackson campus for student access, of which 104
are housed in four large labs used in varying amounts for classes.
37 are available at the Germantown campus.
As of the 2001-2002 academic year, facilities include the following:
30 student microcomputers: Howard 1GHz Pentium III, 256M RAM, 30G hard drive, 17" monitors
1 instructor microcomputer; same config. as above; connected to new color overhead projection
2 HP LaserJet 4000 printers
All computers, laser printers connected to campus-wide Ethernet network
Windows 2000
Microsoft Office XP (Word 2002, Excel 2002, PowerPoint 2002, Access 2002), Internet, Email,
other various applications
C-1 Computing Lab (24 computers for students; same configuration as in BAC-45)
Used primarily during the day for ENG111/112 (Written Composition 1/2). Rarely reserved after 3:00 p.m.
HP LaserJet 4000 printer
C-2 Computing Lab (24 computers for students; same configuration as in BAC-45)
Used primarily for open-hours access by students.
HP LaserJet 4000
C-3 Computing Lab (24 computers for students; same configuration as in BAC-45)
Used primarily by Math for calculus courses
1 instructor microcomputer
HP LaserJet 4000
Includes Mathematica 4.1 (in all labs)
Help Desk
Manned by 2 student lab assistants to help with software questions
2 assistant microcomputers: iMac, Howard
HP LaserJet 8000
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