Fall 2014
Committee:
External Affairs Committee, Legislative & External Policy Committee, Communications Committee
Whereas, The Civil Center Act Education Code Section 38130, public school environments are instructed to have a Center that will cater to the artistic, political and technological needs of the students and community. These include the proper resources needed by studies for their work as
well as the needs of the community as a whole;
Whereas, It is an architectural issue for many older Community Colleges that the brick and other hefty materials that buildings are made with were not made with the thought of wireless internet as a need. This is an issue despite that these schools adhere to codes set down by the state of California. Recognizing that this requires internet routers to be placed outside in weather proof vandal proof encasements; and
Whereas, Many community colleges offer or even require students to access their classes, schedule, and other important information through internet services, and in many cases a school’s internet connections do not have the power or capacity to run them properly. Also, that faculty and professors have issues with internet access as well when it is used during lessons. Increased internet accessibility would assist not only students but faculty as well in this regard;
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges supports legislation that will fulfill the need for productive and technologically current services such as effective wireless internet connections on campus by increasing the amount of routers and networks to better handle the amount of students and have the capability to run any web assistance or tools accessed by the internet that the school may offer; and
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges encourages Community Colleges to improve internet connections, as it is a need of students, to explore the most effective way to do so such as increasing the number of internet routers and placing them in strategic
places outside the buildings on a campus as to achieve the best coverage of internet service. This will require the use of weather proof encasements which can be suggested by the technology experts and department of a campus. Avenues of funding including but not limited to the Foundation for California Community Colleges as well as state resources.
well as the needs of the community as a whole;
Whereas, It is an architectural issue for many older Community Colleges that the brick and other hefty materials that buildings are made with were not made with the thought of wireless internet as a need. This is an issue despite that these schools adhere to codes set down by the state of California. Recognizing that this requires internet routers to be placed outside in weather proof vandal proof encasements; and
Whereas, Many community colleges offer or even require students to access their classes, schedule, and other important information through internet services, and in many cases a school’s internet connections do not have the power or capacity to run them properly. Also, that faculty and professors have issues with internet access as well when it is used during lessons. Increased internet accessibility would assist not only students but faculty as well in this regard;
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges supports legislation that will fulfill the need for productive and technologically current services such as effective wireless internet connections on campus by increasing the amount of routers and networks to better handle the amount of students and have the capability to run any web assistance or tools accessed by the internet that the school may offer; and
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges encourages Community Colleges to improve internet connections, as it is a need of students, to explore the most effective way to do so such as increasing the number of internet routers and placing them in strategic
places outside the buildings on a campus as to achieve the best coverage of internet service. This will require the use of weather proof encasements which can be suggested by the technology experts and department of a campus. Avenues of funding including but not limited to the Foundation for California Community Colleges as well as state resources.