Buena Vista University has created the first wireless university or college campus in the United States and is one of the first of its kind in the world. Buena Vista has provided each of its students with their own wireless laptop computer with access to a wireless network from anywhere and at any time. The national media in the United States has paid a good deal of attention to Buena Vista’s wide – indeed, universal – use of the wireless laptop.
Every student at the school now is linked up to the World Wide Web and other resources 24 hours a day no matter where he or she happens to be at a given moment. The hope is that all of these students will be better educated due to their unprecedented access to the information highway and their complete ability to contact with professors and fellow students alike whenever necessary.
Administrators from other institutions of higher education are closely watching the Buena Vista experiment with providing all students a wireless laptop and complete access to a wireless network. Indeed, many of these administrators have visited Buena Vista to see the wireless laptop program first hand. The university is encouraging men and women from other institutions to visit Buena Vista to see first hand how well the wireless laptop program is working thus far.
Many of these visiting administrators from a wide variety of colleges and universities have generally been impressed with the Buena Vista University wireless laptop program. The consensus appears to be that most administrators find the concept of universally providing wireless laptop equipment and complete access to a wireless network is a positive – if not in fact ultimately necessary – step in the right direction.
Many people are now hypothesizing that the wireless laptop program exemplified at Buena Vista will be commonplace around the globe with a short amount of time.