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In 1996, back when email and the internet felt new, Wake Forest issued laptops to every incoming freshman — and professors panicked. Student mentors, called STARS, came to the rescue, helping everyone from adjuncts to the University president post videos, use PowerPoint and avoid web searches yielding unseemly content. It was all made possible with funding from a secretive billionaire. Read more at bit.ly/TurningTablesonTeaching
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Our son was in the entering class of 1996 and got one of those initial laptops. It was a big deal back then!
The Howler of 1983 brags about a very large computer that supported the entire university - including the graduate schools !!
As a freshman in 1997, we would have been lost without our RTAs (Resident Technology Advisors). I’m grateful to have been at Wake during such an exciting time! Thank you for this fascinating story about STARS and for the generosity of Mr. Feeney.
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