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Hi Wade,</div>
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You can find the original audio on the Morning Edition site...</div>
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Many colleges are moving forward with virtual fall semesters. For students, that means a laptop is essential. Some schools that are offering free laptops for students, but others are on the fence.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Wactclc-primo <wactclc-primo-bounces@lists.ctc.edu> on behalf of Guidry, Wade <WadeG@bigbend.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2020 7:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'WACTCLC Alma Discussion' <wactclc-alma@lists.ctc.edu>; WACTCLC Primo discussions <wactclc-primo@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Wactclc-primo] KUOW (NPR Seattle affiliate) - Need A Laptop? Colleges Boost Loaner Programs Amid Pandemic (radio story from last week)</font>
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I mentioned this KUOW (Seattle NPR affiliate) story on Thursday’s call last week.</p>
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Highlights the increased need and provisioning of laptops to students at Everett Community College and elsewhere in higher ed.</p>
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I don’t see a link to the original audio, but I assume the text is a straight transcript. (I assume that ‘rentals’ in the pull quote below really means ‘loans’.)</p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#494C59">"A lot of people still felt laptops were a luxury as opposed to a must-have," says Tim Rager, who leads the Information Technology department at Everett Community College. "Now
we're realizing it's really a must have."</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#494C59">The northwest Washington community college, like many schools, had long had a laptop loaner program, where students could check out a computer for a few hours, like a library
book. They had about 50 devices on hand.</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#494C59">But when classes went virtual, they switched from short-term rentals to longer-term rentals. And they were inundated with requests.</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#494C59">"So all of a sudden, 'OK, wait! We've got to expand this,' " remembers Rager. Fifty laptops was not enough. So he and his team purchased 400 more. Rager thought that was enough.
He was wrong. "That initial four hundred were just gone. They were just gobbled up."
<b>So they ordered another 700.</b></span></i></p>
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