Suffolk University
Really, really big
More is more when it comes to TV screens in B-schools. And the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University in Boston has one of the biggest. It's a gigantic 7-foot-wide by 4-foot-high Vision Wall by Trinity Video Communications, Inc. that's used for videoconferencing courses in the MBA program and gives the school a competitive advantage.
The Vision Wall provides state-of-the-art technology enabling professors to deliver their classes simultaneously on two campuses. They teach on the main Boston campus and their courses are videoconferenced to MBA students at Sawyer's Cape Cod campus about 150 miles away. That campus has another video system that is similar. Cameras in each location bring professors and student questions to the huge screens in both classrooms.
Sawyer Dean, John F. Brennan, says the Vision Wall has enabled the school to provide superior communications to the Cape Cod facility, the only one in that area that offers both graduate and undergraduate business degrees. MBA enrollment is 32.
Sawyer, which purchased the Vision Wall unit, makes it available to other organizations (one use, for example, is long-distance job interviews) at $250 per hour.
