Google Apps and the New American University

By Adrian sannier, Arizona State University this month Arizona State University (ASU) and Googles first large-scale deployment of Google Apps for education, special police to the airport community of students . In just under two weeks, the special police and Googles management: integration of the ASU single sign-on, allowing students to use their existing asurite Gmail users who log in, for the ASU Laws Emma client to enable students to switch to Gmail users to ASU with a single click creation of a staggering 65,000 new Gmail account for the special police establish a clear communication of information, the special police to the airport The community and the world Adrian sannier This is a story of speed. At the announcement in educause, students switch to Gmail for air separation plant in the rate of 300% hour. However, in addition to providing an exciting new services for students, the special police of the University Technology Office is using the Google alliance as a way to demonstrate flexibility, "the new American University." University President Michael Crow is reshaping Arizona has entered a new species a new American University believes that the unique combination of academic excellence, access and influence. The new American University is a reconception of the 20th century research university plans to meet the new challenges and take advantage of new opportunities, from the 21st century. Its core, the new American university will define itself and not by those it ruled out, but by WHO, which includes. It will distinguish itself and the quality of output, rather than the quality of its inputs.

The United States has many outstanding universities in many ways representative of the highest expression of higher education. However, these very institutions in the pinnacle of academic excellence, only relatively few, this is the result of the design. Central to their strategy and continue to strive for excellence, is extremely selective in the students they serve.

the United States, there are many colleges and universities, is committed to providing access to higher education, struggling to make the experience affordable and valuable national service of the masses not the elite schools. As demand for higher education and increase the gap between excellent and "adequate" to expand the level of practice will not be enough.