Discussion of student advising highlights the development of a personalized electronic advising system (EAS) to supplement the university calendar. Word processing programs that are used as the basis for the EAS are discussed, the inclusion of student records is described, and the ease with which information can be modified is emphasized. (LRW)

Describes system developed at Bennett College for recording grades on a spreadsheet that allows multi-user access for updating student test scores. The interaction between spreadsheets, user-developed statistics programs, and word processing documents is discussed, and a process for using spreadsheet data in a BASIC statistics program is…