Student Computing @ Stanford: Results from Annual Residence Evaluation
by Sindy Lee
The results from the 2007-2008 undergraduate residence computing survey (part of the annual residence evaluation conducted by the Office of Residential Education) are now available.
This year, 2726 students or 41% of all undergrads responded to the survey. The survey results cover topics such as personal computing (including computers, blogs and wikis, email, mobile phones, and more), use of social networking sites like Facebook, and hot issues like file-sharing and copyright (including responses about the over 30 Stanford students who have received "pre-litigation" letters since 2007 and the University's new policies on privacy and copyright complaints and reconnection fees).
The results also include information about students' evaluation of both residence and public computing spaces (Meyer Library, Tresidder, Green Library, etc.) as well as their Resident Computer Consultants or RCCs. (Resident Computer Consultants are students who live in each residence and serve on house staffs as local network managers by supporting in-room network connections, educators by running residential programs on computing and working with students in general, consultants by helping residents with computer problems, cluster technicians by helping to take care of the residence clusters, and more.)
