Steen says he and other HASCS staff were inspired to create portal pages about a year ago, after seeing similar programs at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Minnesota.
Three staff programmers, led by HASCS Manager of User Services David M. Sobel, designed the portals.
Slow functioning delayed the portals' release, originally scheduled for earlier this fall.
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Steen said speed is a remaining problem with the portals. But HASCS, which also provides FAS e-mail accounts and campus kiosks, is working on that concern.
"We need to make it almost instant, but that'll take some time," Steen said.