IIT to give all freshmen Apple iPads — from Educational Technology and WLS-TV Chicago

Beginning this fall, first year students at the Illinois Institute of Technology will receive an Apple iPad. IIT envisions that students will take the portable computer tablet to class to take notes, read books and surf the Internet. The school explains faculty who teach engineering and computer science can also build applications specific to their courses. The freebee will cost the school about $250,000 dollars.
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Seton Hill to Offer iPads to Full-Time Students — from The Chronicle by Jill Laster

Seton Hill University, a liberal-arts institution in Pennsylvania with more than 2,100 students, announced a program on Tuesday that offers an iPad to every full-time student. Distribution will begin in the fall. Incoming freshmen will also receive a 13-inch MacBook laptop, which Seton Hill will replaced after two years; current sophomores, juniors, and seniors can opt into that program.

Should colleges start giving Apple’s iPad to students? — from USAToday.com by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed

The iPad has landed. But should campuses be throwing it a welcome party? At least two are. Seton Hill University, a Roman Catholic institution in Pennsylvania, announced this week that it would be giving Apple’s new computing tablet to each of its 2,000-odd full-time students when they arrive on campus in the fall. George Fox University, a Christian institution in Oregon, will expand its annual laptop giveaway to first-year students to offer students a choice between a Macbook and an iPad. The year after that, there will be no more choice: Everybody will get iPads.