Does CMU offer any crossover or cooperative learning with Pitt?
We share a joint JD/MSIA degree program with Pitt. And, the students do some community service together with Katz [The University of Pittsburgh’s business school] students. But joint learning with area schools has been confined to the University of Pittsburgh. Grads have been spouting about CMU’s hi-tech component of the program. Has anything new been added to this recently? One visible thing is that this year our entering class all purchased notebook computers. This is the first year we’re asking entering students to purchase one. Do you recommend a specific model? We partnered with IBM and give students three different machines that they can choose from with different levels of features and price. They include the IBM ThinkPad 365x, the IBM ThinkPad 380 [which is the base model 380. there’s no CD rom, it has a 1.08 gigbyte hard drive, 30 megabytes of RAM, etc.], and the IBM ThinkPad 380 [tier-three model. It has a 150 MMX processor, 2.1 gig hard drive, 32 megabytes of RAM, and active
