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IT Facts

Online courses supported:
· 100 total (48 undergraduate, 29 graduate, 23 C&TC, fully online courses Fairmont State only)
· 2031 students enrolled (930 undergraduate, 428 graduate, 673 C&TC, fully online courses Fairmont State only)
· 8,284 sections (Fairmont State + hosted partners, 6,969 from Fairmont State alone)
· 47,702 total users (Fairmont State + hosted partners, 31,131 from Fairmont State alone)
· 4 external partners (Wheeling Park HS, Eastern, Northern, West Liberty) representing 3,248 users & 346 sections)

Printing:
· 5,792,842 print pages recorded from January through December, 2008.
· During that time, $362,340 in print-related cost was recoverable through the Pay-For-Print system, of which...  
  $320,057 was charged back to departments (via Auditron);
  $39,541 was directly billed to students (via Banner A/R); and
  $2,742 was forgiven (individual student’s monthly charges were under $.50).  

Network Services & Data Center:
· 103 servers, 400 Gb of memory
· 177 network devices (firewalls, switches, routers) (on main campus)
· 24 network devices (firewalls, switches, routers) (remote locations)
· 1,500+ on campus phones
· 1,436 faculty & staff accounts (faculty & staff, 914 are active)
· 26,445 student accounts
· 853 lab accounts
· 54 wireless access points
· 336 separate fiber runs on campus
· 22.01048 TB (trillions of bytes) of data storage in Storage Area Network (SAN)
· 16 Mbps connection to WVNet, 10 Mbps connection to Time Warner, 8 Mbps connection to other WV state institutions, 30 Mbps connection to Caperton, Byrd, CWE, 1.5 Mbps connection to GearUp

Global Grid Exchange (G2EX):
· 923 nodes on the Global Grid Exchange
· ~$10 million value of spare CPU cycles donated in a direct contribution to the West Virginia economy
· FSU number 1 contributor in the world to cancer research, biomedical research, and financial research carried out by research organizations in WV utilizing the G2EX
· FSU to be the sole contributor for testing and utilizing the “Locksmith Program” in conjunction with law enforcement personnel.

Workstations:
· 602 faculty/staff workstations
· 852 lab workstations

Customer Service:
· 6,076 total trouble tickets, 5,758 closed
· 2,363 trouble tickets, IT Help Desk, 2,288 closed

Library Services *:
 *FY05 data
· 305,443 visits
· 64,332 circulation of print/media
· 7,852 reference questions answered
· 20,836 use of electronic reserves
· 165 databases with more than 28,000 journals available online
· 337,144 access count to databases
· 45,000 electronic books online
· 800 eaudiobooks available for download
· 103 open hours per week
· 155 classes library instruction

Banner and Related Applications:

· 429 programs and scripts, with more than 144,000 lines of code maintained
· 236 custom Oracle reports
· 10,724 unique logons to Banner self-service since 1/1/2006


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