Abilene Christian University freshmen receive more than the usual campus map and lists of required books when they enter the Texas university.
For the past two years, they’ve also received an iPhone or iPod Touch from the university before they begin classes.
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, a select group of freshmen received Kindles, an online book reader, instead of the textbooks.
And at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, a new $50 million education building has 75 miles of Internet networking cable and 11 miles of phone cable, allowing out-of-town students to link with the classroom.