US Envoy Urges DWU Students to Work Hard
By KEVIN PAMBA
February 11, 2009
It has been progressively reducing the use of paper with information and communication technologies (ICTs) and by next year, the "paperless university" policy would be fully operationallized.
All academic and administration activities would be done through the use of ICTs, while the use of paper would be limited to unavoidable circumstances only.
"There is no way back. The paperless university policy will be implemented next year," DWU President, Fr Jan Czuba told staff last Friday at the close of the week-long Staff Induction program.
He said the university has a moral obligation to help fight global warming and it must reduce the use of paper, printing, photocopying and the wastage that is produced at the end of it.
The new policy will require lecturers and tutors and students to carryout all academic work through the networked computers via that lecture rooms, laboratories and auditoriums are have progressively been fitted with the ICT capability.
Students have already been accessing the networked computers with email and Internet access and they each receive a free 128 megabyte flash drive upon enrolment. DWU hopes to go one step further to provide one laptop per student from next year if fundraising goes well.
Fr Czuba s21-Mar-2010n given the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the new technologies over the last three years and there was no way back.
Fr Czuba said those staff still needing assistance to bring themselves up to speed with the ICT use must do so this year through in-house training within their departments and faculties.
He said DWU has embarked on developing itself with the highest quality and best ICT facilities as part of its strategic plan that staff must make use.
In keeping with the push to investment in ICTs, DWU is opening the Department of Mathematics and Computing Studies which is enrolling its first 25 students this year.
The new department will be launched by Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Michael Ogio on Friday while also launching the academic year for DWU.
The new department adds the already successful, Department of Information Systems which offers diploma and degree programs in ICT education.
