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Re: Need info on financial assist for community college Internet connect.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Nov 15 22:26:19 1993
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 19:50:49 -0600
From: tjs@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
To: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov, com-priv@psi.com
> From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
> Subject: Need info on financial assist for community college Internet connect.
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 15:38:46 -0800 (PST)
>
> I have heard (and it has probably been discussed here before, I just couldn't
> weed it out of the archives) that community colleges all have available to
> them a sizable chunk of change to be used for connecting to the Internet.
>
> Can anyone provide me with pointers to more specific information (e.g. how
> much money is available? is it a one-time lump sum? On what kinds of things
> can the money be spent? What kind of paperwork does one have to fill out?
> etc).
>
> Any and all responseS are appreciated.
I understand that the NSF's New Connections program is applicable to
community colleges.
The program announcement, nsf907, is available on stis.nsf.gov.
-tjs
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Title : NSF907 - Connections to NSFNET
Type : Program Guideline
NSF Org: CISE / NCR
Date : July 26, 1990
File : nsf907
Keywords : P.T. 18, 36.
K.W. 1004000, 1004001, 0901011, 1014001.
CONNECTIONS TO NSFNET
Program Announcement
DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DIVISION OF NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND
INFRASTRUCTURE NSFNET PROGRAM
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
I. INTRODUCTION
The NSFNET Program which provides support for U. S. academic
institutions to connect to the NSFNET was begun in 1986 to provide
for remote access to NSF-supported Supercomputer Centers. The
program announcement,"Connections to NSF's Supercomputer Access
Network" (NSF 86-26) has been in effect until now. This program
announcement updates and revises NSF 86-26 in order to reflect
current practices.
The NSFNET Program supports high-speed, wide-area computer
communication networks with a goal of establishing an internet or
network of networks with three levels: a national backbone network,
mid-level networks usually based around some geographical region
of the country, and campus or local networks at educational and
research institutions. The individual institutions are connected
to a mid-level network in the appropriate geographical region. The
mid-level network is in turn attached to the high-speed national
backbone network, usually at its network operation center. The
backbone is connected to other national networks including the
Defense Research Internet, NASA Science Network, and the Energy
Sciences Network; these interconnected networks and many others
worldwide comprise the Internet. The Internet provides access to
a variety of scientific facilities including: digital libraries,
unique data bases, supercomputers, and remote scientific sensing
instruments. The Internet promotes researcher interaction and
collaboration with a single, well-integrated connection to end
users using the Defense Data Network protocols - Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Network management and operations services as well as information
services are provided by each of the levels. The national backbone
network provides for technical and information services to the
mid-level networks. The mid-level networks in turn provide
technical expertise and information services, including training
and documentation, to the campus level network administrators.
Campus network officials provide technical and information services
to the overall campus network administration and also provide
consultative and liaison services to end-users of the network.
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