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BPIC rolls out first travel
plans
If it's true that there's strength in numbers, there should be
discounts involved--or so goes the thinking of the travel
subcommittee of the university's Business Process Improvement
Committee.
In 1999, Johns Hopkins spent an estimated $25
million on business-related travel, which included more than
40,000 plane flights, many of which were to international
destinations.
No significant discounts, however, were derived
from this frequent flying, according to Gary Ostrander, chair of
the travel task force and associate dean of research in the
School of Arts and Sciences. Ostrander said that in the past the
university has not taken full advantage of its position as the
largest employer in the state and one whose affiliates travel
frequently.
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Software puts syllabi, message boards and grades
online
Whether by posting slides of important works of art, creating
links to archived literature or creating an online class bulletin
board where students' questions can be asked and answered,
faculty members across the disciplines increasingly are finding
that they can use the Web to enhance their courses.
Since fall 1998, Hopkins ITS/Research and
Instructional Technologies and the Sheridan Libraries' Digital
Knowledge Center have been collaborating to offer training
sessions for faculty wishing to use a software program called
WebCT to design Web-based courses. The software has gained
popularity: from two Web-based courses that were offered in
spring semester 1998 to 19 that were offered in spring 2000.
Among the wide range of courses that have used
WebCT are Cell Biology, Women in French Literature: The 17th and
18th Centuries, Women at Work in America 1780-1980, Calculus III,
From the Study to the Stage and Physiological Foundations.
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