The program was recommended by the Provost's Information Technology Advisory Committee in AY96 to provide equipment and support to full-time teaching faculty in FAS.

Support personnel includes a manager, a technician and first-tier on-site departmental support (DCCs), typically graduate students preferably in the department served.

Each new computer installation requires 3-4 hours for set-up and delivery and an average of 10 hrs of additional support per faculty member in the first two weeks after delivery. This excludes DCC time.

Social Science Departments are joining the program this year, adding 154 faculty members in seven departments with varying needs, some similar to Humanities departments and some to Sciences.

A related program to support the more technical needs of science and engineering faculty (250) is under phased development this year and next.

The data reported here includes activities across all of the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

The Center holds and maintains Yale's extensive collection of films, videos, and materials for film-related course work and study.

Collection:

Facilities consist of twelve fully equipped video study booths, a 25-seat fully equipped seminar room, a 15-seat fully equipped screening room, a study area with networked computer, and a 35mm projection facility (the only such facility at Yale and the only stereo facility in New Haven)

The Lab Provides specialized support to students and teachers involved in language study. The support consists primarily of audio and video recording and editing facilities and personnel with language pedagogy and technological skills. Support personnel assist in language teaching innovation, language testing, and development of interactive multimedia materials.

Multimedia labs, a teaching materials and resources room, and a main listening room make up the physical space.

Growth will be in Cable TV now being supplied to all student rooms and many classrooms on campus, e.g., satellite video (SCOLA)which currently supplies programs in Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, German, and French.

A new Center for Language Study, not included in this usage data, was created this year to substantially expand Yale's capacity for teaching innovation and the use of information technology in language teaching. Staffing projections for the Center for Language Study include a Director, Assistant, and Technician.

The Center supplies a broad range of educational technology support for students, faculty and staff, e.g., classroom projection, photography, audio- and video-taping, maintenance and training.

Active network connections were provided to all of Yale's centrally scheduled classrooms as of summer 1998. Currently 22 classrooms have built-in projection facilities and many others can accommodate portable digital projection units. AV currently manages six portable projection units available at specific classroom buildings or centrally dispatched. Many science and other departments manage their own portable units.

Photography, especially requests for digital photography, has grown substantially in the past three years.

Instructional Computing supports the use of computers and other digital technologies in the teaching and learning environment. Services include support of desktop computers in student residences and general computing laboratories across campus and development and support of technologies for instructional use inside and outside the classroom.

Active Accounts: estimates of the number of user accounts on the UNIX-based electronic mail and filesharing servers.

Class Web Sites: the number of Yale courses that maintain web-based information on either classes.yale.edu or elsinore.yale.edu.

Online Course Resources: estimates of the number of courses that have used networked IT resources for teaching purposes, including electronic syllabi, mailing lists, newsgroups, and drop-boxes. These resources have used a variety of servers over the years, most recently the CLASSES server.

Electronic Classroom Usage: estimates of the number of courses that make substantive use of Yale's three Arts and Sciences Computer Lab/Classrooms ( Phelps Classroom, Dunham Garage Classroom, and the StatLab).

Computing Facilities: the ber of desktop machines supported by Academic Computing Services in general computing labs, specialty clusters, and electronic classrooms.

Student Remote Access Connections: reflects the number of undergraduate and graduate students that access the Yale network from off-campus locations via modem-based dial-in service.

Support Personnel: indicates the number of undergraduate Computing Assistants employed by ACS in support of student computing, and the number of graduate students employed in support areas such as IIC, and the StatLab.