WSSU Teleclass/Conference Facility

The John and Lillian Lewis Microelectronics Center houses the campus Teleclass/Teleconference Facility which maintains multi-channel connections to the state's two video/data interactive networks: NC-REN (North Carolina-Research, Education Networks) and NCIH (North Carolina Information Highway). The networks provide WSSU faculty, staff, and students with access to a growing number of educational and research resources across the state and beyond. Participants at the WSSU facility can interact face-to-face with individuals at multiple locations across the state. Network sites include four-year institutions, community colleges, high schools, libraries, and state agencies. Interactive activities offered through the facility include credit courses, seminars, workshops, and conferences that cover a wide range of subjects and disciplines. The facility operates a satellite dish that is equipped to receive programs from both C and Ku band satellites and, via uplink transmission dishes attached to NC-REN, originate programs that can be distributed nationally by satellite. Other facility services include in-class video taping/playback, tape duplication and training. In addition, the facility can provide dial-up connections to thousands of videoconference centers worldwide.

Located on the ground floor of the Anderson Center, the facility consists of a 20 seat teleclassroom, a six seat teleconference room and a control area. Both teleclass and conference rooms provide real-time, interactive video connections with multiple sites. In addition to the primary facility, video-audio signals can be routed to three, 30 seat classrooms and two conference rooms in the Continuing Studies wing of the Anderson Center.