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Re: Does resnet increase retention rates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hiester)
Wed Feb 15 11:34:22 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:18:27 -0500
To: susan@chaos.cc.ncsu.edu, resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: hiester@dccs.upenn.edu (Chris Hiester)
At 10:51 AM 2/15/95 +0000, Susan West Klein wrote:
>Hi Folks,
> Have any of you, particularly those at institutions that have been
>offering
>residential networking for a while, found that residential networking has
>any effect on the graduation or retention rates for your institutions? Have
>you noticed whether students choose to live on campus longer when they
>have access to your network?
Funny you should ask today. Here at the University of Pennsylvania, the
headline in today's Daily Pennsylvanian (the independent student newspaper)
reads "Over 600 retain high rise rooms".
Our high-rise residences, housing nearly 3000 students, are all wired with
ethernet, 55 channels of cable TV, common line telephone service, and
optional private telephone service. 607 students chose to remain in the
high rises this year, up from 474 last year. The number was 443 in 1993,
and 371 in 1992.
One of the high rises has been wired for two years, while the other two
have been wired since last August. Students interviewed in the DP article
cited the ethernet connections and cable TV as factors in their decisions
to stay on campus.
Chris Hiester
University of Pennsylvania
