Christian University to Provide iPhone/iPod Touch to all Incoming Freshmen

Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, has announced it will provide all incoming freshmen either an iPhone or an iPod Touch:

At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.

And hopefully other universities will soon see the utility of this technology:

ACU's innovative plans for this technology have attracted the attention of Apple executives and leaders at Ivy League universities. In fact, Roberts returned to Abilene Monday from Cupertino, Calif., where he was asked to present ACU's creative vision for converged media devices at Apple headquarters to executives and to selected leaders from universities including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton and UCLA, Schubert said.

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Comments

[Kelly Sutton]

What the eff? People that applied to Abilene are probably loving themselves right now.

[Stephanie]

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[Jackie]

Thats ridiculous. interesting blog guys