Following in the footsteps of 80 percent of other colleges in California, the University of La Verne’s Office of Information and Technology will begin migration of its Mirapoint e-mail system to Luminis, a campus portal meant to provide both a centered authentication process and an integrated Internet experience in the next year.
A recent increase in the number of e-mail scams requesting personal financial information getting through the University Web mail system has become a source of concern for the campus community.
Academic Computing and Administrative Computing at the University of La Verne has recently found that a virus sent to students' emails can go around to other people in the student's address book.
Advances in modern technology have continued to affect the way people access information and conduct their daily lives. Students no longer have to leave their room in order to shop, bank or find the perfect date.
The University of La Verne's Academic Computing Services has set up a new $5,000 Web-based e-mail server that promises to be more user-friendly than the previous non-Web-based system.
“Jumping on the Web” and “surfing the Net” are terms that are all too familiar to many Internet junkies at the University of La Verne. With full access to the Internet, including thousands of features, such as chat lines and e-mail, many students, faculty and staff make “playing” on the Internet a part of everyday life.