According to The Hamilton Spectator, Mohawk College is one of the newest schools to set up a virtual campus in Second Life. Mohawk is hoping that the island can act as a recruiting tool for perspective students. The build began in October and includes the obligatory building modeled after some area of their real world campus. Other features include interactive galleries that profile students and the college's 40Th anniversary.

Lately it seems that for colleges the Second Life island is the new black. Everyone is seemingly jumping in with a new build designed around some part of their real world campus. While I think it is great that so many Universities are getting their feet wet in Second Life, I would like to encourage Universities to come up with something beyond rebuilding the real and begin to explore expanding upon it.

Update 1: The image is now the logo of Mohawk College