Brown University Moves to Google Apps
on June 30, 2010
Policy & Technology
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After the 6,000 undergraduate students at Brown University started using Google Apps for Education last year, the rest of the campus wanted to use the same tools.
The faculty and staff members wanted those tools so they could better connect with each other and with students. Now the university is migrating faculty, staff, medical and grad students to Google Apps.
"Our students were really the ones that led us down the Google path," said Geoff Greene, director of IT support services at the Rhode Island-based university. "They knew these tools would work because they already used them in their non-school lives. We also decided to go this direction because of the functionalities that we believe will bring our university together, namely tools like collaborative documents, better e-mail (with nearly 30 times the storage space we had with our previous system!) and video chat."
Because of the zero dollar contract, the university will save about $1 million each year, which it can use to invest in its future.
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