MSDNAA
MSDN Academic Alliance
Kent State University has an alliance with Microsoft to allow Faculty and Staff to have access to certain Microsoft Products at little or no cost to them.Follow this link to be taken to the University MSDNAA site.
You may also want to look at Microsoft Dreamspark which contains some select software packages.
Kent State University's Computer Science Department also has an alliance with Microsoft to allow students to download and use FULL versions of development software, at no cost.
Follow this link to be taken to the Computer Science MSDNAA site.