Students Spend Time On-line Instead of In Line.

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On-line registration for classes and on-line tuition and other payments are fast becoming the status quo at American colleges and universities. At Texas Tech University in Lubbock, 25 percent of the student population used their credit cards to pay $7 million in tuition and fees over the Internet. On-line registration and payment of fees is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using the World Wide Web at universities. College campuses around the country are integrating the Internet into all phases of campus life and the benefits ate obvious: better use of resources, a more efficient educational system, and a more technologically savvy workforce. These are important details when one considers that 95 percent of all U.S. workers will...