Student Handbook - Sweet Briar College

2. Telephone
a. Each student is provided with a telephone in her residence and that
telephone has voice mail. Students must activate their voice mail and are
responsible for messages received on the phone. Information on activating
voice mail is available in the SBC telephone directory.
b. Official communication sent via telephone includes notices of campus
emergencies, communications from faculty and staff, and notice of
weather events.
3. Postal Mail
a. Each student is provided with a U.S. Postal mail address and expected to
rent a campus mailbox.
b. Communications from the College may be sent through campus mail
and/or U.S. Mail.
c. Such communications may include, but are not limited to: course notices;
grade reports; billing information; employment documents; faculty notices;
and SGA and student organization notices.
In summary, as a Sweet Briar student, you have responsibility for the
information sent to you from the College from the official communication
channels. The College takes every reasonable measure to ensure that
communications are concise and efficiently managed.
Computer Services
The Computer Services Help Desk is located on the lower level of the Dorothy
Sales Education Building, and can be reached from anywhere on campus by
dialing HELP (ext. 4357) or from off campus (381.6282). Help Desk can assist
students in connecting to the Sweet Briar network, configuring email and web
browsers, personal devices such as smart phones and tablets and troubleshooting
problems. Warranty repair service is available for Apple and Dell computers.
Other repairs are available on a reimbursable basis. Also the Help Desk provides
links on the website: http://sbc.edu/helpdesk that allow you to purchase
software and any Dell or Apple computer at educational discount pricing.
Academic Computing offers training and consulting services to all Sweet Briar
College students, faculty, and staff. Software training workshops are offered on
a regular basis for faculty, staff and students. Sweet Briar community members
(spouses, children, parents, etc…) are welcome to attend workshops if there is
space available. Workshops are offered during the day and in the evening and
are free. Workshop sessions are typically about 90 minutes in length. For more
information on our training program, please visit us at:
http://www.sbc.edu/ac/training-0. If you have specific training needs or
requests, please contact the Academic Technology Trainer at tmarcais@sbc.edu
or ext. 6542. It is possible to organize training sessions for departments, student
groups and classes. One-on-one consulting for special projects is also available.
Academic Technology Support currently has five Apple computer labs
(Benedict, Woody, Fletcher, Cochran-Smith, Babcock-Piano) with Boot Camp
allowing machines to run both Apple’s OSX operating system and Microsoft’s
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