Student Services

Campus www.thomas.edu

Just two miles from downtown Waterville, Thomas College is located on seventy acres of woods and fields where the Kennebec River and Messalonskee Stream meet. The academic complex consists of classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, the Laurette Ayotte Auditorium, the Marriner Library, a computer center, an art gallery, physical education facilities, the commuter lounge, and the bookstore.

Career Services career@thomas.edu www.thomas.edu/career 207-859-1106

At Thomas College, students are encouraged early in their college career to identify professional aspirations and plan career paths to reach their goals. The Career Services office provides students with the resources and tools necessary to successfully complete this process while they are at Thomas and continues to offer counseling and job search assistance to alumni as a lifetime benefit. Graduate students are invited to contact the office via phone, e-mail or in person. Evening appointments can be scheduled.

Programs such as internships, mentoring, and job shadowing help enhance academic learning through practical work experience. Since most Graduate students work while attending school, students can use current employment situations to further develop career, educational, and life goals. Career Services can help students wishing to find employment more closely to their career goals. Workshops in areas such as job search skills, interviewing and interpersonal communication skills, resume preparation, career search, and networking techniques are offered to assist students in securing desired positions.

The Career Services office develops student credential files which are maintained for three years following graduation. These files can include a work history, recommendations, writing samples, and any other data useful in job searches. Working in conjunction with Marriner Library, Career Services annually updates a collection of career resources in print. The office collects and distributes helpful information from graduate schools and national student employment organizations, and maintain a web page with hundreds of useful career development links. This includes information helpful for Graduate students seeking to change careers, re-negotiate salaries and work responsibilities, refresh resume writing and interview skills.

Each semester, corporate and government representatives visit the campus to interview and recruit graduating seniors. Job postings are available in the office and online. Two career fairs are held annually on campus and fairs at other Maine colleges are actively promoted. Thomas College is a member of the Maine Recruiting Consortium, a cooperative effort by twenty-two Maine schools to offer career information and employment search support.

IT Services www.thomas.edu/it

The College has six servers running the Windows 2000 and/or .NET operating system and one server running Linux. Students have access to the servers from over 85 networked personal computers or Windows terminals on campus, in dormitory rooms, using college modems, or through any Internet provider. Software available on the Windows server includes MS Exchange, MS SQL Server, MS Internet Information Server (IIS), and MS Systems Management Server (SMS).

Each student is assigned an account on our server with access to e-mail, the College Intranet, the College Extranet and the Internet. A web-based student information system called the Thomas InfoNet provides access to class schedules, student grades, student bills, and other information. Internet access is provided through several T1 lines to the Internet backbone. The PC labs at Thomas are comprised of Windows XP PCs. Students have access to laser and color inkjet printers. Other lab hardware includes an LCD projector, scanners, video cameras, a digital document sender, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, multimedia, and networking equipment. Software available for the personal computers involves many MS Windows-based packages including Internet Explorer, Office XP (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Front Page, Visual Studio.NET and many programming languages.

A Microsoft Campus Agreement allows undergraduate and graduate students to use any version of Windows, Office, Visual Studio and FrontPage for no additional cost while taking courses at the College. These products are available for sign-out from our Library.

Computer facilities are staffed by 14 work-study students including 8 help desk staff, 2 managers, a hardware/software support person, a web support person, an A/V support person and a student technology assistant. These facilities are generally open Monday through Thursday from 7:45a.m. to 11:00p.m., Friday 7:45a.m. to 4:30p.m., and Sunday 5:00p.m. to 11:00p.m.. Student access from off-campus is available through the Internet or with dial-up modems.

Marriner Library www.thomas.edu/library 207-859-1287

Marriner Library manages the College's research collection of electronic, print, and audio-visual resources. Fulltext periodical databases allow 24-hour access to over 1,500 periodical titles from any computer (on campus or off) equipped with an Internet browser. Other, more specialized databases—including Wall Street Journal, CCH Tax Service, Westlaw Legal Research, and ValueLine Investment Survey—can be accessed from within the library. These materials are complemented by business reference works and audio-visual resources. In addition, Thomas has access to a wide range of material through interlibrary loan and the Internet. Patron workstations allow access to the World Wide Web.

The main floor of the library contains a computer lab, the circulation desk, and reference materials. The upper level of the Library contains the stack area. Carrels for individual study are located on the main floor and in the stack area. The library has a reader-printer available for making copies from microfilm.