Extending Campus Borders
Setting up web cameras at key campus locations to stream campus life and highlight important activities extends access to campus for distant students and alums. While this is not a “must have” with respect to a students academic accomplishments, it is a way to build and maintain community for those who live off campus. By adding webcameras, commuter and distant students can participate (albiet virtually) key school events like convocation and commencement as well as more mundane activities of campus life. As an exemplar, Boston College offers views of the Boston Skyline, its main quad, a plaza where students congregate, and three of its primary buildings (Higgins, Stokes, St Mary’s). Obviously, if you decide to do something like this, it should not occur until testing if the school’s infrastructure is robust to support it.
Other schools with webcams include:
- Boston University Marsh Chapel, Boston, MA
- Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
- Brigham Young University, Rexburg, ID
- Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
- Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI (incl ecosystem preserve, climbing wall, tennis and track)
- Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, CO
- Loyola University of Chicago, IL
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Northeastern University, Boston MA
- Norwich University (users can make minor adjustments to webcam view and campus map shows viewing angles), Northfield, VT
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Utah State University, Logan, UT
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (many)
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
