You are in the official 1997-98 General Catalog
for California State University, Fresno.
Computer Services
Information Technology Services
McKee Fisk, Room 137
(559) 278-3923
JAMES MORRIS, Director
Information Technology Services (ITS) offers a broad range of resources
and services to the students, faculty, and staff of California State University,
Fresno.
Electronic Mail Services. The university provides free electronic
mail accounts to every student, faculty, and staff member who requests one.
These accounts can be accessed from any of the networked computers on campus
or from a home computer with a modem. To request an account, currently enrolled
students should bring their Student I.D. card to McKee Fisk 150. Faculty
and staff may request an account by calling 278-5000 or completing a form
in McKee Fisk 137.
World Wide Web Services. ITS maintains several World Wide Web servers
for campus use. All students, faculty, and staff members who have an electronic
mail account through the university may publish Web pages on these servers.
In addition, ITS maintains a centralized Web server for all university departments
and ASI-recognized student groups. The university's address on the World
Wide Web is listed at the top of this page.
Consulting Support. The ITS Help Desk is available to the campus
Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and weekends from 1 p.m. to
7 p.m. The Help Desk provides general computing and communications support
to the campus and is available to answer questions about electronic mail,
the Internet, telephone and voice mail services, as well as some specific
applications for the PC, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. Students can contact
the ITS Help Desk by calling (559) 278-7000. Faculty and staff should call
(559) 278-5000. The Help Desk can also be reached via e-mail at help@csufresno.edu.
Computing Laboratories. Although ITS does not maintain any campuswide
open use computing laboratories, there are a number of labs supported by
university schools and departments. Most of these labs offer workstations
that are connected to the campus data network, providing access to file
servers, the electronic mail hosts, and the Internet. You may contact our
Help Desk for more information about the location and hours for these labs
or take a look at http://www.csufresno.edu/ITS
for a list of campus labs.
Administrative Computing Support. The campus administrative systems
- such as student records, scheduling, business, and accounting - run on
an IBM enterprise server located in the McKee Fisk computer room. ITS provides
programming and operating support for all administrative computing at the
university.
Networking and Communications Services. California State University,
Fresno utilizes a data communications network that supports high-speed access
to the primary university computing resources, as well as a wide variety
of off-campus resources available through the Internet, from every office
and laboratory on campus.
Dialup Internet Services. The Central Valley Internet Project (CVIP)
offers high-speed, low-cost Internet accounts to qualified students, alumni,
and educators. A CVIP account allows members who have a computer and modem
to send and receive electronic mail, to browse the World Wide Web, to listen
to audio segments and view video clips, to participate in Internet news
and topic groups, to upload and download to and from thousands of computers
worldwide, and to create and maintain their own Web home pages.
California State University, Fresno students, faculty, and staff may purchase
individual accounts for a nominal fee (basic non-graphical electronic mail
accounts are always free to all members of the university community). To
obtain a CVIP account, call (559) 278-1111 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m., or Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., or stop by Keats 113
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
