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The 2009 Furman Techqual surveys contain new questions about the Furman University email system. This year the survey asks respondents to rank how well the University provides an email system that meets your needs. The survey also asks this question:

Google offers universities an email service that provides individuals with more than seven gigabytes of personal storage. If Furman were to switch to using Google, you would keep your existing Furman email address, and use Google’s web mail (or a program like Microsoft Outlook) for your campus email. FirstClass would still be available for conferences (aka “databases”.) This change would require you to make some adjustments for the transition; and, if the campus lost access to the Internet, you would not have email while the campus Internet connection was down. Given this information, do you think Furman University should move its campus email from FirstClass to Google?

The Furman student Techqual survey started on Monday, 10/12. So far over 200 students have responded. The student survey will remain open through the end of October. The faculty/staff Techqual survey will begin in November.