The Management Information System (MIS) department controls the institution’s information technology infrastructure. MIS’s Network Services Group is responsible for the connectivity between campus buildings as fiber channels, external communication, e-mail and internet systems. All students are assigned a computer account on registration. This account allows internet and e-mail access both on and off campus. Users connecting to the University network have direct, high speed access to all University networks including web-based research databases and on-line CD-ROM servers for library research. These services can be accessed off-campus through the University’s website: www.suffolk.edu. The University operates on a Windows computing platform.

Both the College of Arts & Sciences and the Sawyer Business School maintain offices of academic technology that provides direct support regarding issues of technology related to teaching, research and administration. These offices install and maintain hardware, software and networking capabilities for their respective schools. They also provide training, manage computer labs and classrooms, and manage school specific web sites.

The College of Arts & Sciences has twenty-two multimedia classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art audio, video and DVD equipment. Each classroom also has high-speed Internet access allowing instructors to integrate web-based applications into their curriculum. The College’s three computer labs operate during day, evening and weekend hours enabling students to complete class assignments using up-to-date applications assigned by faculty.

The Sawyer Business School has 15 multimedia case rooms with presentation and internet capabilities. There are 2 computer classrooms with student microcomputers of classroom teaching applications and web design. In addition, there is a student walk-in computer lab located on the fifth floor of the Sawyer building. This lab provides 40 networked computer stations, laser printers, color printing, scanning capabilities, and access to discipline-specific software assigned by professors. Computer access is also available in the Sawyer school graduate student lounge, located on the fourth floor of the Sawyer building.