Business Facilities

The College of Business Administration is located in James F. Dicke Hall. This beautiful new facility contains classrooms, faculty offices, and administrative offices - all equipped with the latest instructional technology. In addition to more than 200 network connections, the building offers 100 percent wireless coverage on the 802.11g standard. The building is linked to the campus fiber optic backbone via gigabit Ethernet. All computers are installed with the most current versions of Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2007.

The Business Resource Center offers students, faculty, and business owners/managers the latest business research software and databases. Additionally, it gives visitors access to popular software including Turbo Tax, Photoshop Elements, PrintShop Pro Publisher, Visio Professional and Encarta Reference Library.

Classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art instructional and SMART board technologies. Students have available for their use a computer classroom, a computer lab and computer workstations. In addition, the college provides course-related access to real-time financial information, including stock quotes, through Reuters BridgeStation service.

Students have access to a range of support services including high-speed network laser printing, document scanning, CD-ROM creation capability, desktop publishing and videoconferencing capability. In addition, students have access to a digital video camera and several digital still cameras.

The James F. Dicke College of Business of Administration is a Microsoft Authorized Testing Center. The Microsoft Office certification program is designed to assess proficiency and improve skills. Certification testing is available for Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. The college is also licensed to test for and award the IC3 Internet and Computing Core Certification.