It is increasingly evident that citizens of today's world must have basic competencies in information technology. It is therefore important that our students graduate with a degree of technological competence. Results of the 1998 Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey of entering freshmen show that 77% of our freshmen consider themselves computer literate, 68% have used the World Wide Web for academic purposes, and 61% have used e-mail. We conclude from these findings that most of our freshmen enter with basic technology competencies.
The great majority of our academic programs have a technology requirement, so students often receive additional technology experience through their major field of study. It would be difficult indeed for a student to graduate from Millersville without technological competence.
A Spring 1998 survey of Millersville sophomores, conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute, provides evidence of the skills they develop while here. Eighty-three percent consider themselves computer literate, compared to 77% when they entered as freshmen.
Millersville has not had a University-wide technology competence requirement, however. To address this, the newly established objectives of our General Education curriculum (Appendix 3-1) include:
Communications Technology Literacy: Students completing 60 credits at Millersville will be able to:
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