[The] dean of the College of Letters and Science [at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh] [has] told professors that — for financial and educational reasons — they should put their syllabuses online, and stop distributing them
on the first day of classes.

…The college never figured out the exact cost of printing syllabuses, he says. But copies cost the college about 2 cents a page, nearly all of the university’s 11,000 students take at least some classes in the college, and syllabuses run from a page to 15 pages.

…“This is really idiotic,” says M. Kevin McGee, a professor of economics. “You want access to something like the syllabus in your notebook and with your papers. You need it in paper form,” McGee says, adding that Oshkosh students do not carry around laptops with any regularity. …McGee is no Luddite. He has for a number of years posted copies of his syllabi online, and thinks that is useful, but he says students expect and need a paper copy, too.