There's a lot of services that people build around the university, bothlarge and small . The general habit isto make them self-contained services that run on your own web site orwhatever, or perhaps ones that integrate with other on-campus systems.

I have come to believe that this is a mistake. These days, universityservices should be assuming that students (both undergraduates andespecially graduate students) will show up to the university withalready established online identities and habits, which means thatservices should