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Direct linkCharp, Sylvia; Hines, Duffy – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
Networking trends have accelerated the convergence of computers and communications. With this and the increasing need to share resources and information, educators are faced with many considerations concerning vendor selection, equipment compatibility, performance criteria, wire and cable specifications, and installation of selection systems to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Equipment Utilization
Green, Kenneth C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
The past decade has seen dramatic changes in administrative computing, including more systems, more applications, a new group of computer users, and new opportunities for computer use in campus administration. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
Hawkins, Brian L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
University computing is in rapid and continuing change. What is needed are structures and procedures flexible and adaptable enough to capture new opportunities and stable enough to allow order in each transition. This must involve all parts of the institutional community and include both centralized and decentralized participation. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Centralization, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Kissler, Gerald R. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
As campus computing is decentralized, new responsibilities will devolve to deans. These can be met by appointing faculty committees to develop academic computing plans for teaching and research, assigning departmental staff to administrative systems project development teams, and forming new alliances with directors responsible for academic and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty, Computer Oriented Programs
Ryland, Jane N. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
The microcomputer revolution, in which small and large computers have gained tremendously in capability, has created a distributed computing environment. This circumstance presents administrators with the opportunities and the dilemmas of choosing appropriate computing resources for each situation. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Peer reviewedEwell, Peter T. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1995
Approaches to college student monitoring have been shaped by changing contexts and evolving technical capabilities, beginning with retention studies and developing into fully relational databases for cohort tracking. Institutional researchers should know this history and be aware of the specific demands for information that future tracking systems…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Download full textMcGill, Mollie A., Ed.; Jonsen, Richard W., Ed. – 1987
Policy issues relating to the integration of information and communications technology into higher education are addressed, primarily for those with policy development responsibility at the state level. The following chapters are included: (1) "State Higher Education Policies in the Information Age: An Introduction to the Issues" (Robert…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Agency Role, College Administration
