Northwest Technology & Residential Living

You, Northwest Technology and Residential Living

Northwest's housing philosophy is specifically tailored to help students transition to life on campus, progress towards independent living and being a contributing member of the community.  Residential Life desires to make on-campus living a satisfying experience for students. See Housing for details about campus living.

Northwest’s Office of Information Technology works in cooperation with Residential Life to provide the hardware, software and network resources to ensure the University's strategic goals for student success. However, students living in campus residence halls do not own campus network resources or campus-owned and issued hardware and software.

Technology Use in Residence Halls - What should I know?

• Students living in campus residence halls should consider Northwest to be their internet service provider (ISP) and as such must adhere to all Northwest Technology Policies.
• The wireless and wired campus networks in residence halls along with all Wi-Fi access points, as well as, cable TV connection and Ethernet ports that allow students to connect to and use Northwest network services are the sole property of Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) and are maintained by the Office of Information Technology.
  • The unused telephone jacks in each residence hall room are the sole property of Northwest, and while Northwest does not provide land-line services, students may use the telephone jack to obtain land line or DSL service independent of Northwest wired and wireless services.
• Students may have personally-owned computing equipment in their residence hall room, including a personal printer.  Wireless printers are not allowed!
• Students may also own software licenses, which they independently purchased from a software vendor. Such licenses typically allow students to possess one copy of the software for their personal use and install that software either on their personally-owned computing device or Northwest-issued laptop computer. However, students may not distribute this software to others since this would be a violation of copyright law.  
  • See Northwest Copyright Policies.

Disclaimer: Although the local, state and federal criminal statutes and legal consequences (e.g. fines, jail time, etc.) found within Northwest's technology policies sections have been produced and processed from legitimate government and pertinent legal/educational sources believed to be reliable, no warranty expressed or implied is made by Northwest regarding completeness or precision of the content.

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