Stillman College was recently named one of the “15 most wired campuses in the country” by US News and World Report. The private liberal arts institution’s president Dr. Ernest McNealey aims to keep Stillman at the “forefront of use of Apple technology.”

In keeping with that goal, the college recently awarded a new Apple MacBook Pro to Charvla King, a freshman from Marietta, Ga., who plans to become an anesthesiologist. To win students needed to have a friend enroll. King knew the perfect person – Karina Salazar, a friend from high school who had been thinking of attending Stillman.

“I told her to come and be my roommate,” she said. ” I knew it would be easier to make the transition from high school to college if I knew someone from home, and I also was excited about winning a computer.”

Stillman was recognized for its technological advances as far back as 2002, when the college received the National Innovation in Technology Award by Apple Computers. McNealey also had an opportunity to discuss ways college campuses could improve technology with Steve Jobs, prior to the Apple founder’s illness. read more…