These are the options for graduate students who are doing research without being enrolled in classes:

1. A thesis account arranged through Spring Billiar, ph 8843. It requires a department head and advisor signature, but costs are generally be billed to the student. Students pay $75 per year for a grant which gives them $1000 worth of computing. (Processor minutes, modem connect time and disk space are logged and charged at the same rate as UMD adminstrative accounts.) It is a new account with a different login name than the student account but we can forward email from the student account and also open the student account temporarily and provide some help in moving files.

2. A research account (also through Spring). This is the right option for students who are doing research for a professor. The department that hires the student would apply for it and supply a CUFS number for the charges. In all other ways it is the same as a thesis account.

3. Students who are doing a minimal amount of work on the central computers and just need email can elect to continue their student account for $36 per quarter. We settled on this amount because it is is what the average full time undergraduate pays for an email account each quarter. (If the student will be here all year, the thesis account is a better deal.) The student can pay to continue their student account by purchasing a lab access card at the Computer Corner and bringing it to Gordee Bennett in MWAH 155, or to the IS secretary in MWAH 176. Students who are not on campus can mail a check made out to "University of Minnesota" along with a note which includes their email name to:

Students who also need access to Information Services full access computer labs will have to pay an additional $36 per quarter.

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